Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: initialize the routing table

From: David Miller
Date: Sat Jul 09 2016 - 00:01:38 EST


From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 20:03:54 -0400

> The routing table of every switch in a tree is currently initialized to
> all zeros. This is an issue since 0 is a valid port number.
>
> Add a DSA_RTABLE_NONE=-1 constant to initialize the signed values of the
> routing table pointing to other switches.
>
> This fixes the device mapping of the mv88e6xxx driver where the port
> pointing to the switch itself and to non-existent switches was wrongly
> configured to be 0. It is now set to the expected 0xf value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.