netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: add cross-chip multicast support

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Message-ID: <E5E6875F0BF25A4593C06E471C515D8636D3A2B6D9@magpie>
Date:   Thu, 15 Jun 2017 16:33:51 -0700
From:   Jason Cobham <jcobham@...stertangent.com>
To:     'Vivien Didelot' <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "kernel@...oirfairelinux.com" <kernel@...oirfairelinux.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: add cross-chip multicast support

On 06/15/2017 1:15 PM, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Similarly to how cross-chip VLAN works, define a bitmap of multicast group
> members for a switch, now including its DSA ports, so that multicast traffic
> can be sent to all switches of the fabric.
> 
> A switch may drop the frames if no user port is a member.
> 
> This brings support for multicast in a multi-chip environment.
> As of now, all switches of the fabric must support the multicast operations in
> order to program a single fabric port.
> 
> Reported-by: Jason Cobham <jcobham@...stertangent.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>

Thanks for this fix:

Tested-by: Jason Cobham <jcobham@...stertangent.com>
--
Jason