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Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: dsa: pass bridge device to drivers

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  Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: dsa: pass bridge device to drivers Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> - 2016-02-23 17:20 +0100

#1340834 — Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: dsa: pass bridge device to drivers

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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