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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 net-next 00/15] Traffic support for dsa_8021q in vlan_filtering=1 mode
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    From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
    Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 20:20:24 +0300

    > From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
    >
    > This series is an attempt to support as much as possible in terms of
    > traffic I/O from the network stack with the only dsa_8021q user thus
    > far, sja1105.
    >
    > The hardware doesn't support pushing a second VLAN tag to packets that
    > are already tagged, so our only option is to combine the dsa_8021q with
    > the user tag into a single tag and decode that on the CPU.
    >
    > The assumption is that there is a type of use cases for which 7 VLANs
    > per port are more than sufficient, and that there's another type of use
    > cases where the full 4096 entries are barely enough. Those use cases are
    > very different from one another, so I prefer trying to give both the
    > best experience by creating this best_effort_vlan_filtering knob to
    > select the mode in which they want to operate in.
    ...

    Series applied, thanks Vladimir.

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