Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:28:03 +0200 | From | netdev@kapio-te ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 3/6] drivers: net: dsa: add locked fdb entry flag to drivers |
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On 2022-08-25 11:36, Ido Schimmel wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 01:41:51PM +0200, netdev@kapio-technology.com > wrote: >> On 2022-08-23 08:48, Ido Schimmel wrote: >> > >> > I'm not good at naming, but "blackhole" is at least consistent with what >> > we already have for routes and nexthop objects. >> > >> >> I have changed it the name "masked", as that is also the term used in >> the >> documentation for the zero-DPV entries, and I think that it will >> generally >> be a more accepted term. > > "blackhole" is an already accepted term and at least to me it is much > more clear than "masked". Keep in mind that both L2 neighbours (FDB) > and > L3 neighbours share the same uAPI and eventually we might want to > extend > the use of this flag for L3 neighbours (at least Spectrum supports it), > so it needs to make sense for both.
Okay, I will do that then...
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