Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:26:14 +0100 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add Freescale DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver |
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> Hello Andrew, > > The current driver implementation uses only a single FDB for the switch, > so it is not possible configure multiple flooding domains to accommodate > ports partitioning.
Ah, O.K. Rather than break somebodies network by wrongly flooding, it would be better to return -EOPNOTSUPP when the requirement for the second FDB is met. The offload to hardware will then not happen, and the software bridge will do all the work.
Andrew
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