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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] net: dsa: bcm_sf2: implement HW bridging
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 04:52:37AM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > - we keep the SW bridge fdb in sync with the HW fdb, which leads to:
> 
> I don't think this is going to be easy or efficient. At least for the
> 88e6060 there is no interrupt when there is a change to the
> database. So we are going to have to poll. And the only way to figure
> out if anything has changed is to read it all out and compare against
> the last read.
> 
Agreed.

Guenter