netdev - Re: [RFC net-next 2/7] net: bridge: switchdev: Include local flag in FDB notifications

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Message-ID: <20210118215009.jegmjjhlrooe2r2h@skbuf>
Date:   Mon, 18 Jan 2021 23:50:09 +0200
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...dia.com>
Cc:     Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@...dekranz.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        kuba@...nel.org, andrew@...n.ch, vivien.didelot@...il.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, roopa@...dia.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        jiri@...nulli.us, idosch@...sch.org, stephen@...workplumber.org
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 2/7] net: bridge: switchdev: Include local flag in
 FDB notifications

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:39:27PM +0200, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> Apologies for the multiple emails, but wanted to leave an example:
> 
> 00:11:22:33:44:55 dev ens16 master bridge permanent
> 
> This must always exist and user-space must be able to create it, which
> might be against what you want to achieve (no BR_FDB_LOCAL entries with
> fdb->dst != NULL).

Can you give me an example of why it would matter that fdb->dst in this
case is set to ens16?