Re: [PATCH 1/2] kernel: netdevices: Create Realtek DSA switch packages

[Felix Baumann]

Am 8. Februar 2025 03:51:40 MEZ schrieb Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca at gmail.com>:
>> > Well, the upstream code does not support VLAN/Bridge Forwarding. So,
>> > all traffic goes through the CPU (with the expected lower
>> > performance). I implemented that part in the driver but the maintainer
>> > rejected it as my implementation was based on Shared VLAN Learning and
>> > he already had one based on Independent VLAN Learning. However, that
>> > happened in early 2023 and no IVL appeared upstream. I've been keeping
>> > my code for personal usage. Should I include it as well as a pending
>> > (or hack) patch?
>>
>> We also need to get somewhere with this. I'm not sure I can help
>> super much, every time I deal with VLAN I feel like a hippo in a porcelain
>> store, but can you point me to the patches so I can form an
>> opinion?
>
>There is some good news. I contacted the maintainer again and he plans
>to resume the work on that in a couple of months (customer demand).
>He did share his working tree but it is not in a publishable state
>yet. Let's keep this quiet for a couple of months for now.
>
>I don't think it is worth it for now to review my limited patches.
>Anyway, for the record, they are here (pending patches):
>https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/72959ee699a272ad9477449431da1cb8e4788945
>(with some extra WIP not directly related to the vlan/forwarding).
>
>Regards,
>
>Luiz
>
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That is great news. Even if it might take a while. And well if it never happens you could still propose your patch set at some point (for example in time for OpenWrt 25 or later)

Regards
Felix Baumann