netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] Remove getting SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_BRIDGE

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Date:   Tue, 12 Feb 2019 09:55:49 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:STAGING SUBSYSTEM" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        "moderated list:ETHERNET BRIDGE" <bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        jiri@...lanox.com, andrew@...n.ch, vivien.didelot@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] Remove getting
 SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_BRIDGE_FLAGS

Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:17:46PM CET, f.fainelli@...il.com wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>AFAICT there is no code that attempts to get the value of the attribute
>SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_BRIDGE_FLAGS while it is used with
>switchdev_port_attr_set().
>
>This is effectively no doing anything and it can slow down future work
>that tries to make modifications in these areas so remove that.
>
>David, there should be no dependency with previous patch series, but
>again, feedback from Ido and Jiri would be welcome in case this was
>added for a reason.

It was originally used by:
switchdev_port_bridge_getlink()
removed by:
commit 29ab586c3d83f81c435e269cace9a1619afb5bbd
Author: Arkadi Sharshevsky <arkadis@...lanox.com>
Date:   Sun Aug 6 16:15:51 2017 +0300

    net: switchdev: Remove bridge bypass support from switchdev

So these are just leftovers. Let's flush them.