Re: [PATCH net 0/2] Fix mangled link-local MAC DAs with SJA1105 DSA

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Mon Jul 03 2023 - 16:34:05 EST


On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 17:14:51 +0300 Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> The SJA1105 hardware tagging protocol is weird and will put DSA
> information (source port, switch ID) in the MAC DA of the packets sent
> to the CPU, and then send some additional (meta) packets which contain
> the original bytes from the previous packet's MAC DA.
>
> The tagging protocol driver contains logic to handle this, but the meta
> frames are optional functionality, and there are configurations when
> they aren't received (no PTP RX timestamping). Thus, the MAC DA from
> packets sent to the stack is not correct in all cases.
>
> Also, during testing it was found that the MAC DA patching procedure was
> incorrect.
>
> The investigation comes as a result of this discussion with Paolo:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/f494387c8d55d9b1d5a3e88beedeeb448f2e6cc3.camel@xxxxxxxxxx/

This series got eaten by vger, I think. Could you repost?