Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 01/10] net: switchdev: remove vid_begin -> vid_end range from VLAN objects

[Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 03:09:57PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> Let's go off and finish the job of commit 29ab586c3d83 by deleting the
> bogus iteration through the VLAN ranges from the drivers. Some aspects
> of this feature never made too much sense in the first place. For
> example, what is a range of VLANs all having the BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO_PVID
> flag supposed to mean, when a port can obviously have a single pvid? The
> switchdev drivers have so far interpreted this to mean that the last
> VLAN in the range should be the only one which should get programmed
> with that attribute.

See commit 6623c60dc28e ("bridge: vlan: enforce no pvid flag in vlan
ranges")

> Of the existing switchdev pieces of hardware, it appears that only
> Mellanox Spectrum supports offloading more than one VLAN at a time.
> I have kept that code internal to the driver, because there is some more
> bookkeeping that makes use of it, but I deleted it from the switchdev
> API. But since the switchdev support for ranges has already been de
> facto deleted by a Mellanox employee and nobody noticed for 4 years, I'm
> going to assume it's not a biggie.

Which code are you referring to?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>

For the switchdev and mlxsw parts:

Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>

I applied the series to our queue, so I should have regression results
tomorrow