netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 8/8] net: Get rid of switchdev_port_attr

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Message-ID: <20190221095752.GK2312@nanopsycho>
Date:   Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:57:52 +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 v3 8/8] net: Get rid of switchdev_port_attr_get()

Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 01:58:26AM CET, f.fainelli@...il.com wrote:
>With the bridge no longer calling switchdev_port_attr_get() to obtain
>the supported bridge port flags from a driver but instead trying to set
>the bridge port flags directly and relying on driver to reject
>unsupported configurations, we can effectively get rid of
>switchdev_port_attr_get() entirely since this was the only place where
>it was called.
>
>Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>

Thanks!