[PATCH net v4 5/7] net: dsa: mt7530: fix handling of LLDP frames

Arınç ÜNAL arinc.unal at arinc9.com
Wed Jun 14 13:52:24 PDT 2023


On 14.06.2023 19:42, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 10:59:43AM +0300, arinc9.unal at gmail.com wrote:
>> From: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal at arinc9.com>
>>
>> LLDP frames are link-local frames, therefore they must be trapped to the
>> CPU port. Currently, the MT753X switches treat LLDP frames as regular
>> multicast frames, therefore flooding them to user ports. To fix this, set
>> LLDP frames to be trapped to the CPU port(s).
>>
>> The mt753x_bpdu_port_fw enum is universally used for trapping frames,
>> therefore rename it and the values in it to mt753x_port_fw.
>>
>> For MT7530, LLDP frames received from a user port will be trapped to the
>> numerically smallest CPU port which is affine to the DSA conduit interface
>> that is up.
>>
>> For MT7531 and the switch on the MT7988 SoC, LLDP frames received from a
>> user port will be trapped to the CPU port that is affine to the user port
>> from which the frames are received.
>>
>> The bit for R0E_MANG_FR is 27. When set, the switch regards the frames with
>> :0E MAC DA as management (LLDP) frames. This bit is set to 1 after reset on
>> MT7530 and MT7531 according to the documents MT7620 Programming Guide v1.0
>> and MT7531 Reference Manual for Development Board v1.0, so there's no need
>> to deal with this bit. Since there's currently no public document for the
>> switch on the MT7988 SoC, I assume this is also the case for this switch.
>>
>> Fixes: b8f126a8d543 ("net-next: dsa: add dsa support for Mediatek MT7530 switch")
> 
> Patch 4 claims to be a fix for this commit, and introduces one of these
> modifications to MT753X_BPC, which this patch then changes.
> 
> On the face of it, it seems this patch is actually a fix to patch 4 as
> well as the original patch, so does that mean that patch 4 only half
> fixes a problem?

I should do the enum renaming on my net-next series instead, as it's not 
useful to what this patch fixes at all.

> 
> Bah, I give up with this. IMHO it's just too much of a mess trying to
> do any sane review of it. No, I'm not going to give any acks or
> reviewed-bys to it because nothing here makes much sense to me.
> 
> And I just can't be bothered trying to parse the commit messages
> anymore.
> 
> Sorry but no, I'm going to be ignoring these patch sets from now on.

... okay. I listen to your reviews and change my patches accordingly. If 
that's not enough, I don't know what is.

Arınç



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