From: Razvan Stefanescu <razvan.stefanescu@nxp.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, "arnd@arndb.de" <arnd@arndb.de>,
Alexandru Marginean <alexandru.marginean@nxp.com>,
Ruxandra Ioana Ciocoi Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu@nxp.com>,
Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>,
Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>,
"stuyoder@gmail.com" <stuyoder@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v5 2/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add Freescale DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:27:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM3PR04MB07431282E4801B905EAE7AFCE6D10@AM3PR04MB0743.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180313152614.GC17895@lunn.ch>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew@lunn.ch]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 5:26 PM
> To: Razvan Stefanescu <razvan.stefanescu@nxp.com>
> Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; devel@driverdev.osuosl.org; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org; Alexander Graf
> <agraf@suse.de>; arnd@arndb.de; Alexandru Marginean
> <alexandru.marginean@nxp.com>; Ruxandra Ioana Ciocoi Radulescu
> <ruxandra.radulescu@nxp.com>; Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>;
> Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>; stuyoder@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add Freescale DPAA2
> Ethernet Switch driver
>
> > Hello Andrew,
> >
> > The current driver implementation uses only a single FDB for the switch,
> > so it is not possible configure multiple flooding domains to accommodate
> > ports partitioning.
>
> Ah, O.K. Rather than break somebodies network by wrongly flooding, it
> would be better to return -EOPNOTSUPP when the requirement for the
> second FDB is met. The offload to hardware will then not happen, and
> the software bridge will do all the work.
>
Thank you for your suggestion. I will add to the TODO list in v6.
Razvan
> Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-14 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-13 13:51 [PATCH v5 0/6] staging: Introduce DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 13:51 ` [PATCH v5 1/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add APIs for DPSW object Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-14 12:17 ` Greg KH
2018-03-14 14:30 ` Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 13:51 ` [PATCH v5 2/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add Freescale DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 14:22 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-13 15:20 ` Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 15:26 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-14 14:27 ` Razvan Stefanescu [this message]
2018-03-13 13:51 ` [PATCH v5 3/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add ethtool support Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 13:51 ` [PATCH v5 4/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add maintainer for Ethernet Switch driver Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 13:51 ` [PATCH v5 5/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add README Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 13:51 ` [PATCH v5 6/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add TODO Razvan Stefanescu
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