netdev - [RFC PATCH net-next 06/12] Documentation: networking: dsa: document the port_bridge

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Message-Id: <20210221213355.1241450-7-olteanv@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 21 Feb 2021 23:33:49 +0200
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>,
        DENG Qingfang <dqfext@...il.com>,
        Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@...dekranz.com>,
        George McCollister <george.mccollister@...il.com>,
        Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@...rochip.com>,
        Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>
Subject: [RFC PATCH net-next 06/12] Documentation: networking: dsa: document the port_bridge_flags method

From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

The documentation was already lagging behind by not mentioning the old
version of port_bridge_flags (port_set_egress_floods). So now we are
skipping one step and just explaining how a DSA driver should configure
address learning and flooding settings.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
---
 Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
index 19ce5bb0a7a4..3c6560a43ae0 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
@@ -597,6 +597,17 @@ Bridge layer
   computing a STP state change based on current and asked parameters and perform
   the relevant ageing based on the intersection results
 
+- ``port_bridge_flags``: bridge layer function invoked when a port must
+  configure its settings for e.g. flooding of unknown traffic or source address
+  learning. The switch driver is responsible for initial setup of the
+  standalone ports with address learning disabled and egress flooding of all
+  types of traffic, then the DSA core notifies of any change to the bridge port
+  flags when the port joins and leaves a bridge. DSA does not currently manage
+  the bridge port flags for the CPU port. The assumption is that address
+  learning should be statically enabled (if supported by the hardware) on the
+  CPU port, and flooding towards the CPU port should also be enabled, in lack
+  of an explicit address filtering mechanism in the DSA core.
+
 Bridge VLAN filtering
 ---------------------
 
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