Re: [PATCH net v4 5/7] net: dsa: mt7530: fix handling of LLDP frames

From: Arınç ÜNAL
Date: Wed Jun 14 2023 - 16:53:29 EST


On 14.06.2023 19:42, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 10:59:43AM +0300, arinc9.unal@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@xxxxxxxxxx>

LLDP frames are link-local frames, therefore they must be trapped to the
CPU port. Currently, the MT753X switches treat LLDP frames as regular
multicast frames, therefore flooding them to user ports. To fix this, set
LLDP frames to be trapped to the CPU port(s).

The mt753x_bpdu_port_fw enum is universally used for trapping frames,
therefore rename it and the values in it to mt753x_port_fw.

For MT7530, LLDP frames received from a user port will be trapped to the
numerically smallest CPU port which is affine to the DSA conduit interface
that is up.

For MT7531 and the switch on the MT7988 SoC, LLDP frames received from a
user port will be trapped to the CPU port that is affine to the user port
from which the frames are received.

The bit for R0E_MANG_FR is 27. When set, the switch regards the frames with
:0E MAC DA as management (LLDP) frames. This bit is set to 1 after reset on
MT7530 and MT7531 according to the documents MT7620 Programming Guide v1.0
and MT7531 Reference Manual for Development Board v1.0, so there's no need
to deal with this bit. Since there's currently no public document for the
switch on the MT7988 SoC, I assume this is also the case for this switch.

Fixes: b8f126a8d543 ("net-next: dsa: add dsa support for Mediatek MT7530 switch")

Patch 4 claims to be a fix for this commit, and introduces one of these
modifications to MT753X_BPC, which this patch then changes.

On the face of it, it seems this patch is actually a fix to patch 4 as
well as the original patch, so does that mean that patch 4 only half
fixes a problem?

I should do the enum renaming on my net-next series instead, as it's not useful to what this patch fixes at all.


Bah, I give up with this. IMHO it's just too much of a mess trying to
do any sane review of it. No, I'm not going to give any acks or
reviewed-bys to it because nothing here makes much sense to me.

And I just can't be bothered trying to parse the commit messages
anymore.

Sorry but no, I'm going to be ignoring these patch sets from now on.

... okay. I listen to your reviews and change my patches accordingly. If that's not enough, I don't know what is.

Arınç