linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: dsa: add port fast ageing

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Date:   Fri, 23 Sep 2016 01:43:52 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...oirfairelinux.com,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: dsa: add port fast ageing

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 04:49:20PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Today the DSA drivers are in charge of flushing the MAC addresses
> associated to a port when its STP state changes from Learning or
> Forwarding, to Disabled or Blocking or Listening.
> 
> This makes the drivers more complex and hides this generic switch logic.
> 
> This patchset introduces a new optional port_fast_age operation to
> dsa_switch_ops, to move this logic to the DSA layer and keep drivers
> simple. b53 and mv88e6xxx are updated accordingly.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew