From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Razvan Stefanescu <razvan.stefanescu@nxp.com>
Cc: "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
"arnd@arndb.de" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>,
Alexandru Marginean <alexandru.marginean@nxp.com>,
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"stuyoder@gmail.com" <stuyoder@gmail.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add Freescale DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:26:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180313152614.GC17895@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM3PR04MB07438DD330E88830AD714339E6D20@AM3PR04MB0743.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>
> 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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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-13 13:51 [PATCH v5 0/6] staging: Introduce " Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 13:51 ` [PATCH v5 1/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add APIs for DPSW object Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-14 12:17 ` Greg KH
2018-03-14 14:30 ` Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 13:51 ` [PATCH v5 2/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add Freescale DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 14:22 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-13 15:20 ` Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 15:26 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2018-03-14 14:27 ` Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 13:51 ` [PATCH v5 3/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add ethtool support Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 13:51 ` [PATCH v5 4/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add maintainer for Ethernet Switch driver Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 13:51 ` [PATCH v5 5/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add README Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 13:51 ` [PATCH v5 6/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add TODO Razvan Stefanescu
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