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authorFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>2014-08-27 17:04:46 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-08-27 22:59:39 -0700
commit3e8a72d1dae374cf6fc1dba97cec663585845ff9 (patch)
tree83a2ebc590d0dc90d27515dc15bf6323cb2a6c1b /include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h
parent8663dc2002b02abfe5dfb0fb7e544b81982ad95b (diff)
net: dsa: reduce number of protocol hooks
DSA is currently registering one packet_type function per EtherType it needs to intercept in the receive path of a DSA-enabled Ethernet device. Right now we have three of them: trailer, DSA and eDSA, and there might be more in the future, this will not scale to the addition of new protocols. This patch proceeds with adding a new layer of abstraction and two new functions: dsa_switch_rcv() which will dispatch into the tag-protocol specific receive function implemented by net/dsa/tag_*.c dsa_slave_xmit() which will dispatch into the tag-protocol specific transmit function implemented by net/dsa/tag_*.c When we do create the per-port slave network devices, we iterate over the switch protocol to assign the DSA-specific receive and transmit operations. A new fake ethertype value is used: ETH_P_XDSA to illustrate the fact that this is no longer going to look like ETH_P_DSA or ETH_P_TRAILER like it used to be. This allows us to greatly simplify the check in eth_type_trans() and always override the skb->protocol with ETH_P_XDSA for Ethernet switches tagged protocol, while also reducing the number repetitive slave netdevice_ops assignments. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h
index 0f8210b8e0bc..aa63ed023c2b 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@
#define ETH_P_PHONET 0x00F5 /* Nokia Phonet frames */
#define ETH_P_IEEE802154 0x00F6 /* IEEE802.15.4 frame */
#define ETH_P_CAIF 0x00F7 /* ST-Ericsson CAIF protocol */
+#define ETH_P_XDSA 0x00F8 /* Multiplexed DSA protocol */
/*
* This is an Ethernet frame header.