Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:47:27 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: dsa: use per-port upstream port | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 12:34:52 -0500
> An upstream port is a local switch port used to reach a CPU port. > > DSA still considers a unique CPU port in the whole switch fabric and > thus return a unique upstream port for a given switch. This is wrong in > a multiple CPU ports environment. > > We are now switching to using the dedicated CPU port assigned to each > port in order to get rid of the deprecated unique tree CPU port. > > This patchset makes the dsa_upstream_port() helper take a port argument > and goes one step closer complete support for multiple CPU ports.
Please adhere to reverse-christmas-tree for variable declarations in these changes.
I know it can be a pain when there are inter-variable dependencies wrt. assignments, but just move it below the declaration and into a real statement.
Thanks.
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