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

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Date:	Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:53:12 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel@...oirfairelinux.com, f.fainelli@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: dsa: pass bridge device to drivers

From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:09:37 -0500

> 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.

Series applied, thanks Vivien.