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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 net-next 3/6] drivers: net: dsa: add locked fdb entry flag to drivers
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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