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Message-Id: <20190806.143824.217572108778111632.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 14:38:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: olteanv@...il.com
Cc: f.fainelli@...il.com, vivien.didelot@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/5] Fixes for SJA1105 DSA: FDBs, Learning and PTP
From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 01:38:43 +0300
> This is an assortment of functional fixes for the sja1105 switch driver
> targeted for the "net" tree (although they apply on net-next just as
> well).
>
> Patch 1/5 ("net: dsa: sja1105: Fix broken learning with vlan_filtering
> disabled") repairs a breakage introduced in the early development stages
> of the driver: support for traffic from the CPU has broken "normal"
> frame forwarding (based on DMAC) - there is connectivity through the
> switch only because all frames are flooded.
> I debated whether this patch qualifies as a fix, since it puts the
> switch into a mode it has never operated in before (aka SVL). But
> "normal" forwarding did use to work before the "Traffic support for
> SJA1105 DSA driver" patchset, and arguably this patch should have been
> part of that.
> Also, it would be strange for this feature to be broken in the 5.2 LTS.
>
> Patch 2/5 ("net: dsa: sja1105: Use the LOCKEDS bit for SJA1105 E/T as
> well") is a simplification of a previous FDB-related patch that is
> currently in the 5.3 rc's.
>
> Patches 3/5 - 5/5 fix various crashes found while running linuxptp over the
> switch ports for extended periods of time, or in conjunction with other
> error conditions. The fixed-up commits were all introduced in 5.2.
Series applied.
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