Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] net: dsa: bcm_sf2: implement HW bridging operations

From: Guenter Roeck <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:03:52 -0800

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 04:51:30PM -0800, roopa wrote:
> >
> >Not sure yet what to do about setting the fdb aging time. I don't see a
> >mechanism to do that. No idea how important that is.
> rocker, the only consumer today relies on the bridge driver aging of learnt
> entries.
> You could do the same.
> 

Remember that we are dealing with hardware switch chips. Those chips
won't time out fdb entries just because the kernel's bridge driver
thinks that it should.

Am I missing something ?

Guenter