Messages in this thread | | | From | Vivien Didelot <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: dsa: pass bridge device to drivers | Date | Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:08:26 -0500 |
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Hi all,
Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> writes:
> This patchset simplifies the DSA layer. > > A switch may support multiple bridges with the same hardware VLAN. Thus a check > such as dsa_bridge_check_vlan_range must be moved from the DSA layer to the > concerned driver. > > The first purpose of this patchset is to help moving this check to the > mv88e6xxx driver, which is the only one affected at the moment. > > To do that, pass directly the bridge net_device structure down to the DSA > drivers, instead of calculating a bitmask of bridge members. > > The second purpose is to prepare the replacement of the complex > port_vlan_getnext approach. A second patchset is ready to follow, implementing > port_vlan_dump and thus simplifying the DSA slave code one more time. > > Note that this patchset applies on top of https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/5/532.
The dependent fix from net is now merged into net-next, which makes this patchset apply well. I'm sending the second patchset right away.
Thanks, -v
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