netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 6/9] net: dsa: remove the transactional logic from VLAN objects

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdbJAwFNDgsJ6dhrH8DA=YBiDf=c-dwBsQi=XMSfGsZJ0A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 27 Dec 2020 14:30:37 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>,
        Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>,
        Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@...rochip.com>,
        Microchip Linux Driver Support <UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com>,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
        Landen Chao <Landen.Chao@...iatek.com>,
        Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Vadym Kochan <vkochan@...vell.com>,
        Taras Chornyi <tchornyi@...vell.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>,
        Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
        Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>,
        Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 6/9] net: dsa: remove the transactional logic
 from VLAN objects

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 2:59 AM Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com> wrote:

> It should be the driver's business to logically separate its VLAN
> offloading into a preparation and a commit phase, and some drivers don't
> need / can't do this.
>
> So remove the transactional shim from DSA and let drivers to propagate
> errors directly from the .port_vlan_add callback.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

This makes the RTL8366 handle errors in a strict way so:
Reviewed-by: Linus Wallei <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij