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dsa: Combine core and tagging code These files have circular dependencies, so if we make DSA modular then they must be built into the same module. Therefore, link them together and merge their respective module init and exit functions. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 2011-11-25 14:35:02 +00:00



net: Distributed Switch Architecture protocol support Distributed Switch Architecture is a protocol for managing hardware switch chips. It consists of a set of MII management registers and commands to configure the switch, and an ethernet header format to signal which of the ports of the switch a packet was received from or is intended to be sent to. The switches that this driver supports are typically embedded in access points and routers, and a typical setup with a DSA switch looks something like this: +-----------+ +-----------+ \| \| RGMII \| \| \| +-------+ +------ 1000baseT MDI ("WAN") \| \| \| 6-port +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN1") \| CPU \| \| ethernet +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN2") \| \|MIImgmt\| switch +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN3") \| +-------+ w/5 PHYs +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN4") \| \| \| \| +-----------+ +-----------+ The switch driver presents each port on the switch as a separate network interface to Linux, polls the switch to maintain software link state of those ports, forwards MII management interface accesses to those network interfaces (e.g. as done by ethtool) to the switch, and exposes the switch's hardware statistics counters via the appropriate Linux kernel interfaces. This initial patch supports the MII management interface register layout of the Marvell 88E6123, 88E6161 and 88E6165 switch chips, and supports the "Ethertype DSA" packet tagging format. (There is no officially registered ethertype for the Ethertype DSA packet format, so we just grab a random one. The ethertype to use is programmed into the switch, and the switch driver uses the value of ETH_P_EDSA for this, so this define can be changed at any time in the future if the one we chose is allocated to another protocol or if Ethertype DSA gets its own officially registered ethertype, and everything will continue to work.) Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com> Tested-by: Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@gmail.com> Tested-by: Tim Ellis <tim.ellis@mac.com> Tested-by: Peter van Valderen <linux@ddcrew.com> Tested-by: Dirk Teurlings <dirk@upexia.nl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 2008-10-07 13:44:02 +00:00
net: dsa: add Broadcom tag RX/TX handler Add support for the 4-bytes Broadcom tag that built-in switches such as the Starfighter 2 might insert when receiving packets, or that we need to insert while targetting specific switch ports. We use a fake local EtherType value for this 4-bytes switch tag: ETH_P_BRCMTAG to make sure we can assign DSA-specific network operations within the DSA drivers. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 2014-08-27 17:04:55 -07:00
dsa: Combine core and tagging code These files have circular dependencies, so if we make DSA modular then they must be built into the same module. Therefore, link them together and merge their respective module init and exit functions. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 2011-11-25 14:35:02 +00:00