netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/7] net: dsa: merge all bools of struct dsa

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Date:   Wed, 5 Jan 2022 23:10:35 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/7] net: dsa: merge all bools of struct
 dsa_port into a single u8

On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 06:39:34PM +0000, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 10:30:54AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> 
> Thanks a lot for the review.
> 
> I'm a bit on the fence on this patch and the other one for dsa_switch.
> The thing is that bit fields are not atomic in C89, so if we update any
> of the flags inside dp or ds concurrently (like dp->vlan_filtering),
> we're in trouble. Right now this isn't a problem, because most of the
> flags are set either during probe, or during ds->ops->setup

I've no idea if it ever got merged, but:

https://lwn.net/Articles/724319/

	Andrew