linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 11/15] net: dsa: sja1105: add a new best_effort_vlan

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Message-ID: <dc30d202-3924-172e-5d69-5d1a0ce6e9bd@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 11 May 2020 20:37:21 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>, andrew@...n.ch,
        vivien.didelot@...il.com
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, jiri@...lanox.com,
        idosch@...sch.org, rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 11/15] net: dsa: sja1105: add a new
 best_effort_vlan_filtering devlink parameter



On 5/11/2020 6:53 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
> 
> This devlink parameter enables the handling of DSA tags when enslaved to
> a bridge with vlan_filtering=1. There are very good reasons to want
> this, but there are also very good reasons for not enabling it by
> default. So a devlink param named best_effort_vlan_filtering, currently
> driver-specific and exported only by sja1105, is used to configure this.
> 
> In practice, this is perhaps the way that most users are going to use
> the switch in. It assumes that no more than 7 VLANs are needed per port.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
-- 
Florian