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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, David <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel <kernel@savoirfairelinux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add support for VLAN Table Unit
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 22:08:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150708200852.GD1357@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1831874541.91682.1436379099609.JavaMail.zimbra@savoirfairelinux.com>

> > This is a limitation of the switch. So the driver needs to keep track
> > of which bridge a VLAN belongs to, if it is asked to accelerate the
> > same VLAN for a different bridge, it needs to say to the kernel,
> > sorry, cannot do that, and leave the kernel to do it in software.
> 
> Scott, how do you think this must be done? Returning a different error
> code when trying to add a SWITCHDEV_OBJ_PORT_VLAN object?
> Not sure how to query this fallback. Is -EOPNOTSUPP enough?

There was quite a bit of discussion about this a while back.  It
should return an error during the prepare phase. Looking at
__vlan_vid_add() and switchdev_fib_ipv4_add, it should return
EOPNOTSUPP.

	  Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-08 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-07 21:18 [PATCH v4 0/3] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add support for VLAN Table Unit Vivien Didelot
2015-07-07 21:18 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add debugfs interface for VTU Vivien Didelot
2015-07-07 21:18 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] net: dsa: add support for switchdev VLAN objects Vivien Didelot
2015-07-07 21:18 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add switchdev VLAN operations Vivien Didelot
2015-07-08 14:38 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add support for VLAN Table Unit Andrew Lunn
2015-07-08 17:13   ` Vivien Didelot
2015-07-08 17:32     ` Andrew Lunn
2015-07-08 18:11       ` Vivien Didelot
2015-07-08 20:08         ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2015-07-08 20:12         ` Andrew Lunn
2015-07-08 20:34           ` Vivien Didelot
2015-07-09 18:01     ` David Miller
2015-07-09 21:03       ` Vivien Didelot

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