[Bridge] [PATCH net-next v5 01/10] net: bridge: extend the process of special frames

Nikolay Aleksandrov nikolay at nvidia.com
Wed Oct 14 10:50:38 UTC 2020


On Mon, 2020-10-12 at 14:04 +0000, Henrik Bjoernlund wrote:
> This patch extends the processing of frames in the bridge. Currently MRP
> frames needs special processing and the current implementation doesn't
> allow a nice way to process different frame types. Therefore try to
> improve this by adding a list that contains frame types that need
> special processing. This list is iterated for each input frame and if
> there is a match based on frame type then these functions will be called
> and decide what to do with the frame. It can process the frame then the
> bridge doesn't need to do anything or don't process so then the bridge
> will do normal forwarding.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Henrik Bjoernlund  <henrik.bjoernlund at microchip.com>
> Reviewed-by: Horatiu Vultur  <horatiu.vultur at microchip.com>
> ---
>  net/bridge/br_device.c  |  1 +
>  net/bridge/br_input.c   | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  net/bridge/br_mrp.c     | 19 +++++++++++++++----
>  net/bridge/br_private.h | 19 ++++++++++++-------
>  4 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 

Looks good.
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay at nvidia.com>



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