netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 6/6] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Flood broadcast frames in hardware

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Date:   Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:36:50 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 6/6] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Flood broadcast frames
 in hardware

> Adding the broadcast address to an Ethernet switch's FDB is pretty
> generic and mv88e6xxx mustn't be the only driver doing this.

Actually, it is. All the others seem to do this in hardware without
needing an FDB. Since mv88e6xxx is the only one requiring it, it has
to be done in the mv88e6xxx driver.

   Andrew