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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 10/10] rocker: implement L2 bridge offloading
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On 11/10/14 12:36, Scott Feldman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:

> Per-port gives more flexibility, and it looks like we can extend
> existing IFLA_BRPORT_LEARNING without much trouble.
>

I am thinking per port as well...
So we have hardware and/or software selection of per port:
fdb flooding control, fdb learning control,
stp controls, multicast controls
some of those weird vepa controls

This is why i thought all these could use a bit representation each.
You have 32 bit flags and 32 bit selector.

cheers,
jamal