From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>
To: Razvan Stefanescu <razvan.stefanescu@nxp•com>
Cc: "devel@driverdev•osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev•osuosl.org>,
"arnd@arndb•de" <arnd@arndb•de>,
"gregkh@linuxfoundation•org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>,
Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp•com>,
Alexandru Marginean <alexandru.marginean@nxp•com>,
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse•de>,
"linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
"stuyoder@gmail•com" <stuyoder@gmail•com>,
"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add Freescale DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:26:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180313152614.GC17895@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM3PR04MB07438DD330E88830AD714339E6D20@AM3PR04MB0743.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>
> Hello Andrew,
>
> The current driver implementation uses only a single FDB for the switch,
> so it is not possible configure multiple flooding domains to accommodate
> ports partitioning.
Ah, O.K. Rather than break somebodies network by wrongly flooding, it
would be better to return -EOPNOTSUPP when the requirement for the
second FDB is met. The offload to hardware will then not happen, and
the software bridge will do all the work.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-13 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-13 13:51 [PATCH v5 0/6] staging: Introduce DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 13:51 ` [PATCH v5 1/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add APIs for DPSW object Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-14 12:17 ` Greg KH
2018-03-14 14:30 ` Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 13:51 ` [PATCH v5 2/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add Freescale DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 14:22 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-03-13 15:20 ` Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 15:26 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2018-03-14 14:27 ` Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 13:51 ` [PATCH v5 3/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add ethtool support Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 13:51 ` [PATCH v5 4/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add maintainer for Ethernet Switch driver Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 13:51 ` [PATCH v5 5/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add README Razvan Stefanescu
2018-03-13 13:51 ` [PATCH v5 6/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add TODO Razvan Stefanescu
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