netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/3] net: dsa: check out-of-range ageing time

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Message-Id: <20170315.153444.911901357692024194.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:34:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...oirfairelinux.com, f.fainelli@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch,
        jcobham@...stertangent.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/3] net: dsa: check out-of-range ageing
 time

From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:53:47 -0400

> The ageing time limits supported by DSA drivers vary depending on the
> switch model. If a driver returns -ERANGE for out-of-range values, the
> switchdev commit phase will fail with the following stacktrace:
 ...
> This patchset fixes this by adding ageing_time_min and ageing_time_max
> fields to the dsa_switch structure, which can optionally be set by a DSA
> driver.
> 
> If provided, the DSA core will check for out-of-range values in the
> SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_BRIDGE_AGEING_TIME prepare phase and return -ERANGE
> accordingly.
> 
> Finally set these limits in the mv88e6xxx driver.

Series applied, thanks Vivien.