| Date | Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:31:52 +0200 | From | Vladimir Oltean <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 48/66] bridge: switchdev: Notify about VLAN protocol changes |
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On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 09:22:34PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > From: Danielle Ratson <danieller@nvidia.com> > > [ Upstream commit 22ec19f3aee327806c37c9fa1188741574bc6445 ] > > Drivers that support bridge offload need to be notified about changes to > the bridge's VLAN protocol so that they could react accordingly and > potentially veto the change. > > Add a new switchdev attribute to communicate the change to drivers. > > Signed-off-by: Danielle Ratson <danieller@nvidia.com> > Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com> > Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com> > Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> > Reviewed-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> > ---
This looks like a bit of an odd patch to backport? Are we also going to backport driver changes that make use of this new switchdev notifier?
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