netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 6/8] net: bridge: move br_fdb_replay inside br

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Date:   Wed, 27 Oct 2021 11:28:23 +0300
From:   Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...dia.com>
To:     Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>,
        Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 6/8] net: bridge: move br_fdb_replay inside
 br_switchdev.c

On 27/10/2021 11:16, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 05:27:41PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
>> br_fdb_replay is only called from switchdev code paths, so it makes
>> sense to be disabled if switchdev is not enabled in the first place.
>>
>> As opposed to br_mdb_replay and br_vlan_replay which might be turned off
>> depending on bridge support for multicast and VLANs, FDB support is
>> always on. So moving br_mdb_replay and br_vlan_replay inside
>> br_switchdev.c would mean adding some #ifdef's in br_switchdev.c, so we
>> keep those where they are.
> 
> TBH, for consistency with br_mdb_replay() and br_vlan_replay(), it would
> have been good to keep it where it is, but ...
> 
>>
>> The reason for the movement is that in future changes there will be some
>> code reuse between br_switchdev_fdb_notify and br_fdb_replay.
> 
> this seems like a good reason, so:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>
> 
> Nik, WDYT?
> 

Good point, it'd be nice to have them all in one place, since they all deal
specifically with switchdev we can move them to br_switchdev.c. We can also
rename them similar to other functions in br_switchdev, e.g. br_switchdev_fdb_replay

Thanks,
 Nik