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RE: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: add cross-chip multicast support

From Jason Cobham <jcobham@questertangent.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject RE: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: add cross-chip multicast support
Date 2017-06-16 02:10 +0200
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On 06/15/2017 1:15 PM, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Similarly to how cross-chip VLAN works, define a bitmap of multicast group
> members for a switch, now including its DSA ports, so that multicast traffic
> can be sent to all switches of the fabric.
> 
> A switch may drop the frames if no user port is a member.
> 
> This brings support for multicast in a multi-chip environment.
> As of now, all switches of the fabric must support the multicast operations in
> order to program a single fabric port.
> 
> Reported-by: Jason Cobham <jcobham@questertangent.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>

Thanks for this fix:

Tested-by: Jason Cobham <jcobham@questertangent.com>
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Jason

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[PATCH net-next] net: dsa: add cross-chip multicast support Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> - 2017-06-15 22:20 +0200
  RE: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: add cross-chip multicast support Jason Cobham <jcobham@questertangent.com> - 2017-06-16 02:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: add cross-chip multicast support Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2017-06-16 02:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: add cross-chip multicast support David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-06-16 21:30 +0200

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