Re: [PATCH V2 net-next 0/2] net: hns3: adds two VLAN feature

From: tanhuazhong
Date: Fri May 22 2020 - 05:35:19 EST




On 2020/5/22 5:37, David Miller wrote:
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 12:17:07 -0700

On Thu, 21 May 2020 19:38:23 +0800 Huazhong Tan wrote:
This patchset adds two new VLAN feature.

[patch 1] adds a new dynamic VLAN mode.
[patch 2] adds support for 'QoS' field to PVID.

Change log:
V1->V2: modifies [patch 1]'s commit log, suggested by Jakub Kicinski.

I don't like the idea that FW is choosing the driver behavior in a way
that's not observable via standard Linux APIs. This is the second time
a feature like that posted for a driver this week, and we should
discourage it.

Agreed, this is an unacceptable approach to driver features.


Hi, Jakub & David.

As decribed in patch #1, there is a scenario which needs the dynamic
mode(port VLAN filter is always disabled, andVF VLAN filter is keep
disable until a non-zero VLAN ID being used for the function).

Is this mode selection provided through "ethtool --set-priv-flags"
more acceptable? Or is there any other better suggestion for this?

Thanks.

.