> There is really no need to recompute the static parts of the tags on
> each skb. It would mean moving some knowledge of the tagging format to
> the driver. But that boundary is pretty artificial for
> mv88e6xxx. tag_dsa has no use outside of mv88e6xxx, and mv88e6xxx does
> not work with any other tagger. I suppose you could even move the whole
> tagger to drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/?
>
> What do you think?
>
> Andrew?
We have resisted this before.
What information do you actually need to share between the tagger and
the driver? Both tag_lan9303.c and tag_ocelot_8021q.c do reference
their switch driver data structures, so some sharing is allowed. But
please try to keep the surface areas down.
Andrew
