Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 6/6] selftests: forwarding: add test of MAC-Auth Bypass to locked port tests

From: netdev
Date: Mon Aug 29 2022 - 11:08:35 EST


On 2022-08-29 16:37, Ido Schimmel wrote:
On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 02:04:42PM +0200, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 2022-08-29 13:32, Ido Schimmel wrote:
Port association is needed for MAB to work at all on mv88e6xxx, but for
802.1X port association is only needed for dynamic ATU entries.

Ageing of dynamic entries in the bridge requires learning to be on as
well, but in these test cases you are only using static entries and
there is no reason to enable learning in the bridge for that. I prefer
not to leak this mv88e6xxx implementation detail to user space and
instead have the driver enable port association based on whether
"learning" or "mab" is on.


Then it makes most sense to have the mv88e6xxx driver enable port association when then port is locked, as it does now.