>>>>> "Mugunthan" == Mugunthan V N <mugunthan...@ti.com> writes:
Hi, M> +- ethtool-active-slave : Specifies the slave to use for ethtool command >> >> That again sounds like something Linux specific rather than a hardware >> property. >> >> It would be good if all these special things (dual emac mode, vlan >> handling, switching) could be handled using the existing kernel >> (bridging/vlan) infrastructure, and the driver always just exposing 2 >> network interfaces instead of these configuration properties. Mugunthan> Switch and Dual Emac modes of operation of CPSW are two Mugunthan> different features of the hardware and packet routing Mugunthan> between the slaves in the hardware are different in both the Mugunthan> modes. Mugunthan> If by default it is brought up as Dual EMAC then hardware Mugunthan> switching is blocked and use-cases like IP phone etc cannot Mugunthan> be achieved. Well, you could use the (sw) bridge functionality of the kernel network stack, but performance naturally wouldn't be as good. Mugunthan> Since CPSW as a hardware Switch, it cannot not be handled in Mugunthan> existing kernel feature. Well, we do have net/dsa, which is conceptually quite similar (even though it has never been extended to hook into the bridging stuff). I agree that we don't have infrastructure to handle hw like cpsw in a really good way today, but it would be very nice to move towards it. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
