[Bridge] [PATCH net-next v2] Documentation: networking: Clarify switchdev devices behavior

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Wed Jan 9 04:39:21 UTC 2019


Le 1/4/19 à 5:58 AM, Ido Schimmel a écrit :
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 02:47:02PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> +A switchdev driver can also refuse to support dynamic toggling of the VLAN
>> +filtering knob at runtime and require a destruction of the bridge device(s) and
>> +a creation of new bridge device(s) with a different VLAN filtering value to
>> +ensure VLAN awareness is pushed down to the HW.
> 
> ...
> 
>> +Similarly to VLAN filtering, if dynamic toggling of the IGMP snooping
> 
> I think you meant to continue this sentence with something about vetoing
> the operation. Note that it is not currently possible as
> br_mc_disabled_update() returns void. Can be extended if needed.

Yes, that's what I meant, that change is queued in my local branch right
now which will get submitted once net-next open backs again.

Thanks!
-- 
Florian


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