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Message-ID: <87jzy11ehz.fsf@kapio-technology.com> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 17:33:44 +0200 From: Hans Schultz <netdev@...io-technology.com> To: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>, Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>, Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net] net: bridge: switchdev: don't notify FDB entries with "master dynamic" On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 15:26, Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 10:47:15AM +0200, Hans Schultz wrote: >> I do not understand this patch. It seems to me that it basically blocks >> any future use of dynamic fdb entries from userspace towards drivers. >> >> I would have expected that something would be done in the DSA layer, >> where (switchcore) drivers would be able to set some flags to indicate >> which features are supported by the driver, including non-static >> fdb entries. But as the placement here is earlier in the datapath from >> userspace towards drivers it's not possible to do any such thing in the >> DSA layer wrt non-static fdb entries. > > As explained too many times already in the thread here: > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20230318141010.513424-3-netdev@kapio-technology.com/ > the plan is: Ahh yes thanks, I see the comment you wrote on march the 27th.
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