lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2022]   [Aug]   [16]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 net-next 3/6] drivers: net: dsa: add locked fdb entry flag to drivers
On 2022-08-10 09:21, Ido Schimmel wrote:
>> >
>> > 1. It discards packets with matching DMAC, regardless of ingress port. I
>> > read the document [1] you linked to in a different reply and could not
>> > find anything against this approach, so this might be fine or at least
>> > not very significant.
>> >
>> > Note that this means that "locked" entries need to be notified to device
>> > drivers so that they will install a matching entry in the HW FDB.
>>

I just want to be completely sure as what should be done in version 5
with locked entries from the bridge, as - if I should implement it so
that they are sent to all the drivers, and the drivers then ignore them
if they don't need to take action? (for the mv88e6xxx driver, it does
not need them and can ignore but other drivers might need.)

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2022-08-16 11:32    [W:0.132 / U:0.080 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site