• Radu Pirea (NXP OSS)'s avatar
    net: macsec: introduce mdo_insert_tx_tag · a73d8779
    Radu Pirea (NXP OSS) authored
    Offloading MACsec in PHYs requires inserting the SecTAG and the ICV in
    the ethernet frame. This operation will increase the frame size with up
    to 32 bytes. If the frames are sent at line rate, the PHY will not have
    enough room to insert the SecTAG and the ICV.
    
    Some PHYs use a hardware buffer to store a number of ethernet frames and,
    if it fills up, a pause frame is sent to the MAC to control the flow.
    This HW implementation does not need any modification in the stack.
    
    Other PHYs might offer to use a specific ethertype with some padding
    bytes present in the ethernet frame. This ethertype and its associated
    bytes will be replaced by the SecTAG and ICV.
    
    mdo_insert_tx_tag allows the PHY drivers to add any specific tag in the
    skb.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRadu Pirea (NXP OSS) <radu-nicolae.pirea@oss.nxp.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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