Messages in this thread | | | From | Razvan Stefanescu <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH v5 2/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add Freescale DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver | Date | Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:27:55 +0000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew@lunn.ch] > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 5:26 PM > To: Razvan Stefanescu <razvan.stefanescu@nxp.com> > Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; devel@driverdev.osuosl.org; linux- > kernel@vger.kernel.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org; Alexander Graf > <agraf@suse.de>; arnd@arndb.de; Alexandru Marginean > <alexandru.marginean@nxp.com>; Ruxandra Ioana Ciocoi Radulescu > <ruxandra.radulescu@nxp.com>; Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>; > Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>; stuyoder@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add Freescale DPAA2 > Ethernet Switch driver > > > Hello Andrew, > > > > The current driver implementation uses only a single FDB for the switch, > > so it is not possible configure multiple flooding domains to accommodate > > ports partitioning. > > Ah, O.K. Rather than break somebodies network by wrongly flooding, it > would be better to return -EOPNOTSUPP when the requirement for the > second FDB is met. The offload to hardware will then not happen, and > the software bridge will do all the work. > Thank you for your suggestion. I will add to the TODO list in v6.
Razvan > Andrew
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