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Message-ID: <20190121084512.GB2228@nanopsycho>
Date:   Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:46:36 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "andrew@...n.ch" <andrew@...n.ch>,
        "vivien.didelot@...il.com" <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        "ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org" <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>,
        "ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org" <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org>,
        "roopa@...ulusnetworks.com" <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        "nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com" <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 09/14] net: bridge: Propagate MC addresses with
 VID through switchdev

Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 12:41:08PM CET, idosch@...lanox.com wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:17:57AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:

[...]


>
>switchdev allows to offload the bridge datapath to capable devices, but
>you're abusing to it allow non-bridged ports to perform address
>filtering. Completely unrelated.

Florian, please make sure not to do that. Switchdev code is now 100%
bridge offload facility, it would be preferable to keep it that way. I
plan to move the code to bridge and get rid of net/switchdev completely
to avoid confusions. Arkadi was working on that in past but he did not
finish it, unfortunatelly.

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