linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: dsa: add fabric notifier

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Date:   Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:56:08 -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,
        cphealy@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: dsa: add fabric notifier

From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Date: Fri,  3 Feb 2017 13:20:15 -0500

> When a switch fabric is composed of multiple switch chips, these chips
> must be programmed accordingly when an event occurred on one of them.
> 
> Examples of such event include hardware bridging: when a Linux bridge
> spans interconnected chips, they must be programmed to allow external
> ports to ingress frames on their internal ports.
> 
> Another example is cross-chip hardware VLANs. Switch chips in-between
> interconnected bridge ports must also configure a given VLAN to allow
> packets to pass through them.
> 
> In order to support that, this patchset introduces a non-intrusive
> notifier mechanism. It adds a notifier head in every DSA switch tree
> (the said fabric), and a notifier block in every DSA switch chip.
 ...

Series applied, thanks Vivien.