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Message-ID: <20160405233943.GA19409@lunn.ch>
Date:	Wed, 6 Apr 2016 01:39:43 +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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: document missing functions

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 11:22:40AM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Add description for the missing port_vlan_prepare, port_fdb_prepare,
> port_fdb_dump functions in the DSA documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>

Hi Vivien

A few English improvements:

> ---
>  Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
> index 3b196c3..8ba3369 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
> @@ -542,6 +542,12 @@ Bridge layer
>  Bridge VLAN filtering
>  ---------------------
>  
> +- port_vlan_prepare: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge prepares the
> +  configuration of a VLAN on the given port. If the operation is not
> +  programmable, this function should return -EOPNOTSUPP to inform the bridge

s/programmable/supported by the hardware

> +  code to fallback to a software implementation. No hardware programmation

s/programmation/setup

> +  must be done in this function. See port_vlan_add for this and details.
> +
>  - port_vlan_add: bridge layer function invoked when a VLAN is configured
>    (tagged or untagged) for the given switch port
>  
> @@ -552,6 +558,12 @@ Bridge VLAN filtering
>    function that the driver has to call for each VLAN the given port is a member
>    of. A switchdev object is used to carry the VID and bridge flags.
>  
> +- port_fdb_prepare: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge prepares the
> +  installation of a Forwarding Database entry. If the operation is not
> +  programmable, this function should return -EOPNOTSUPP to inform the bridge

s/programmable/supported

> +  code to fallback to a software implementation. No hardware programmation

s/programmation/setup

	Andrew