DSA Mini-tutorial still marked as Work In Progress
Florian Fainelli
f.fainelli at gmail.com
Tue Sep 6 14:33:50 PDT 2022
On 9/4/2022 2:32 PM, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
> Hi Rich,
>
> On 4.09.2022 17:58, Rich Brown wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> The DSA Mini-tutorial on the Wiki
>> (https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/dsa/dsa-mini-tutorial) is
>> still marked as a "Work In Progress"
>>
>> I should know - I wrote this up as we were getting ready to ship
>> 21.02, and I thought that we should have something about DSA on the
>> wiki. But I don't really know anything about DSA - I simply pieced the
>> article together from a few forum posts. And I never received any
>> direct feedback or saw any updates to the wiki page.
>>
>> I was "makin' a lot of stuff up" as I wrote that page. It's the best I
>> could do, but nothing that's written there should be taken as gospel.
>> The italics near the top indicate areas of uncertainty. I also was
>> guessing about the difference between device and interface definitions.
>>
>> Here's my request:
>>
>> It would do my heart good to have someone who's knowledgeable about
>> DSA read through the page and either make direct corrections, or send
>> me a note and I'll make them. Thanks.
>
> I don't see much content to document DSA. All DSA does is creating a
> network interface for each switch port. What I think should be properly
> documented is the Bridge VLAN filtering feature. I have made some
> efforts to do that on my playground here:
>
> https://openwrt.org/playground/arinc9/start
>
> I know I was supposed to deliver much more, much earlier. I still have a
> huge list of things to do on LuCI, UCI and OpenWrt Wiki, forcefully
> pushed down to the bottom of my task list.
Maybe this is enough to reference since it contains basic use cases, and
not so basic ones, too:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/networking/dsa/configuration.rst
--
Florian
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