[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/swconfig: new package

[Matthew Weber]

All,

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 2:54 PM Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
>
>  Hi Vadim,
>
> On 20/08/2019 17:51, Vadim Kochan wrote:
> > Add swconfig package which allows to configure switchdev
> > device (Ethernet switch) via netlink interface.

[snip]

> It is considered legacy and new switch drivers should use the DSA (distributed
> switch architecture) kernel framework which makes it possible to use standard
> userspace tools such as ip to configure the switches.
>
>  Also, as far as I understand, it uses a framework that never got upstreamed to
> Linux so you need an openwrt-forked kernel to use it. I think it's worth
> mentioning that in the help text as well.

Just a note, there is also this phytool floating around.  I've got a
similar tool / dummy phy concept in a few products where DSA wasn't
feasible and I needed direct switch access.

https://github.com/wkz/phytool


Matt