netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v7 06/24] switchdev: convert STP update to switchdev attr set

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Message-ID: <20150510192931.GB2022@nanopsycho>
Date:	Sun, 10 May 2015 21:29:31 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	sfeldma@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
	linux@...ck-us.net, f.fainelli@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch,
	simon.horman@...ronome.com, joe@...ches.com,
	sridhar.samudrala@...el.com, ronen.arad@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7 06/24] switchdev: convert STP update to
 switchdev attr set

Sun, May 10, 2015 at 06:47:51PM CEST, sfeldma@...il.com wrote:
>From: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
>
>STP update is just a settable port attribute, so convert
>switchdev_port_stp_update to an attr set.
>
>For DSA, the prepare phase is skipped and STP updates are only done in the
>commit phase.  This is because currently the DSA drivers don't need to
>allocate any memory for STP updates and the STP update will not fail to HW
>(unless something horrible goes wrong on the MDIO bus, in which case the
>prepare phase wouldn't have been able to predict anyway).
>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
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