Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: dsa: add port fast ageing

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu Sep 22 2016 - 19:44:03 EST


On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 04:49:20PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Today the DSA drivers are in charge of flushing the MAC addresses
> associated to a port when its STP state changes from Learning or
> Forwarding, to Disabled or Blocking or Listening.
>
> This makes the drivers more complex and hides this generic switch logic.
>
> This patchset introduces a new optional port_fast_age operation to
> dsa_switch_ops, to move this logic to the DSA layer and keep drivers
> simple. b53 and mv88e6xxx are updated accordingly.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Andrew