From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 70A1621A447; Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:22:34 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1789518155; cv=none; b=MwXFqKxonJRpf4K74MMfbGCeBHLURGsBaLwm1qg5z79tdldqM9llsVvJQvTcs2dj94ofvR/KhTNsPSKosmGrQgVC3vQHe0g2ynA2xUP5oQy2/cbbENJQGDDthXOXqdcG0+6mICK/xGDi2sxUqkWbjfARCQw1wHvwHDA97N4tNzA= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1789518155; c=relaxed/simple; bh=tfp/H+PVQL+YpSv9kw+OGp9L0SGjpXNu9tZynIhcIic=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=iyOjMRSqCT1h3fxV/yKIOEYZpf5cQgR/wK6b4mm05yNgjtzvrBW4C2hr4LhemOUzsz8Zxn5hrLrAgEtc7exuPy86kBiMPksGz9dTCPHRDNbIZ60tWZNCukzjKktAqZEEDkwkJMhqlNvx2LqXpNfwtkSnXCBK5+A6HEOr0lRhipw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=FemkOq0C; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="FemkOq0C" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 66CBD1F00893; Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:22:33 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1789518154; bh=H8DSLS94/4rn/IDEYTvnb/3NOSmuiboyBVGoAfDceNw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=FemkOq0Cn++Rtx1GJ2eUSVXAfe6MyPicArFasJFuqHZgwSVWAp53cdkoCx5f/63cT shPokNu2TsUSWSNW/WCLm9QAB7Ov+0sCMaAtrLUeR2YKNwAlOwhRT2She0oZfQhiwG cGY8qvxYkpAApkOGVj4rUJrSIbghNY7endSgCyJmAbe9V4C9BjKXggM98XB5MWXUzZ GZpFF46WwlYgeqpJtqPhHYy28AXSPOcYQ/vuFGcoMHVqQMjFmGOKkRnWy1vA30KWZx l+ZACWWDaZ3ayDG6Gax8c0mXqPgaTBCkHxscSItqjDXeSvUwmx0qdtEhHtfQh/IcgX lNeeKGvr9Cc/Q== Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:22:32 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Srinivas Neeli Cc: Nagadheeraj Rottela , Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , "Eric Dumazet" , Paolo Abeni , Rob Herring , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Conor Dooley , Richard Cochran , Michal Simek , "Sebastian Andrzej Siewior" , Clark Williams , Steven Rostedt , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/8] Add Xilinx TSN Endpoint Ethernet MAC driver Message-ID: <20260915172232.04df37b2@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20260909-patches_v2_external-v2-0-3a40babaff4c@amd.com> References: <20260909-patches_v2_external-v2-0-3a40babaff4c@amd.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 9 Sep 2026 00:49:48 +0530 Srinivas Neeli wrote: > This series adds the wrapper and endpoint side of the IP. The switch-facing > part is exposed through the Distributed Switch Architecture (DSA) framework > in a follow-up series, so that MAC1 and MAC2 show up to Linux as switch > ports with the endpoint acting as the CPU/conduit port. The endpoint frames > are already classified by source-port id and tagged with DSA port metadata > here, so the switch series can consume them without further endpoint > change. I'm not sure why you're implementing this as DSA. This needs to be explained, if a single driver can bind and control the whole thing, that's AFAIU preferable. You can keep the implementation details in the driver without exposing the conduit to user space