Re: [PATCH] net: phy: dp83867: Port mirroring support in the DP83867 TI's PHY driver

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Wed Feb 01 2017 - 16:16:40 EST


> What a poorly chosen name though... in Ethernet world, port mirroring
> means the ability to capture traffic from a vector of ports and copying
> it verbatim (or sampled) towards a capture port, aka the mirror port...

Ack. We should avoid "port mirroring" in what ever patch we decide upon.

Andrew