linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/8] net: switchdev: Add PORT_PRE_BRIDGE

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Message-ID: <20190221095640.GD2312@nanopsycho>
Date:   Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:56:40 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:STAGING SUBSYSTEM" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        "moderated list:ETHERNET BRIDGE" <bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        jiri@...lanox.com, andrew@...n.ch, vivien.didelot@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/8] net: switchdev: Add PORT_PRE_BRIDGE_FLAGS

Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 01:58:19AM CET, f.fainelli@...il.com wrote:
>In preparation for removing switchdev_port_attr_get(), introduce
>PORT_PRE_BRIDGE_FLAGS which will be called through
>switchdev_port_attr_set(), in the caller's context (possibly atomic) and
>which must be checked by the switchdev driver in order to return whether
>the operation is supported or not.
>
>This is entirely analoguous to how the BRIDGE_FLAGS_SUPPORT works,
>except it goes through a set() instead of get().
>
>Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>