ether: add EtherType for proprietary Realtek protocols
authorAlvin Šipraga <alsi@bang-olufsen.dk>
Mon, 18 Oct 2021 09:37:56 +0000 (11:37 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 18 Oct 2021 13:02:55 +0000 (14:02 +0100)
commit7bbbbfaa7a1b0b03890f25fba5f28bb8c7ef145a
treebffa9003e068f342ca192308c754d0c005a09505
parent4abd7cffc09a38015fa14a22471e3de48a4ca032
ether: add EtherType for proprietary Realtek protocols

Add a new EtherType ETH_P_REALTEK to the if_ether.h uapi header. The
EtherType 0x8899 is used in a number of different protocols from Realtek
Semiconductor Corp [1], so no general assumptions should be made when
trying to decode such packets. Observed protocols include:

  0x1 - Realtek Remote Control protocol [2]
  0x2 - Echo protocol [2]
  0x3 - Loop detection protocol [2]
  0x4 - RTL8365MB 4- and 8-byte switch CPU tag protocols [3]
  0x9 - RTL8306 switch CPU tag protocol [4]
  0xA - RTL8366RB switch CPU tag protocol [4]

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CACRpkdYQthFgjwVzHyK3DeYUOdcYyWmdjDPG=Rf9B3VrJ12Rzg@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://www.wireshark.org/lists/ethereal-dev/200409/msg00090.html
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210822193145.1312668-4-alvin@pqrs.dk/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200708122537.1341307-2-linus.walleij@linaro.org/

Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Alvin Šipraga <alsi@bang-olufsen.dk>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h