diff --git a/include/net/dsa.h b/include/net/dsa.h
index 0260b73938e2..e20be1ceb306 100644
--- a/include/net/dsa.h
+++ b/include/net/dsa.h
@@ -210,6 +210,12 @@ struct dsa_port {
 	struct work_struct	xmit_work;
 	struct sk_buff_head	xmit_queue;
 
+	/*
+	 * Give the switch driver somewhere to hang its per-port private data
+	 * structures (accessible from the tagger).
+	 */
+	void *priv;
+
 	/*
 	 * Original copy of the master netdev ethtool_ops
 	 */