netdev - Re: [RFC net-next 0/3] net: bridge: Allow CPU port configuration

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Date:   Tue, 22 Nov 2016 13:49:36 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, stephen@...workplumber.org,
        vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com, andrew@...n.ch,
        jiri@...lanox.com, idosch@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 0/3] net: bridge: Allow CPU port configuration

Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 08:09:22PM CET, f.fainelli@...il.com wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>This patch series allows using the bridge master interface to configure
>an Ethernet switch port's CPU/management port with different VLAN attributes than
>those of the bridge downstream ports/members.
>
>Jiri, Ido, Andrew, Vivien, please review the impact on mlxsw and mv88e6xxx, I
>tested this with b53 and a mockup DSA driver.

Patchset looks fine to me.

>
>Open questions:
>
>- if we have more than one bridge on top of a physical switch, the driver
>  should keep track of that and verify that we are not going to change
>  the CPU port VLAN attributes in a way that results in incompatible settings
>  to be applied

Ack. In mlxsw this is tracked


>
>- if the default behavior is to have all VLANs associated with the CPU port
>  be ingressing/egressing tagged to the CPU, is this really useful?
>
>Florian Fainelli (3):
>  net: bridge: Allow bridge master device to configure switch CPU port
>  net: dsa: Propagate VLAN add/del to CPU port(s)
>  net: dsa: b53: Remove CPU port specific VLAN programming
>
> drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_common.c | 22 ++++++--------------
> net/bridge/br_vlan.c             | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
> net/dsa/slave.c                  | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> 3 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>
>-- 
>2.9.3
>