Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: document missing functions

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Tue Apr 05 2016 - 19:39:50 EST


On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 11:22:40AM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Add description for the missing port_vlan_prepare, port_fdb_prepare,
> port_fdb_dump functions in the DSA documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Vivien

A few English improvements:

> ---
> Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
> index 3b196c3..8ba3369 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
> @@ -542,6 +542,12 @@ Bridge layer
> Bridge VLAN filtering
> ---------------------
>
> +- port_vlan_prepare: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge prepares the
> + configuration of a VLAN on the given port. If the operation is not
> + programmable, this function should return -EOPNOTSUPP to inform the bridge

s/programmable/supported by the hardware

> + code to fallback to a software implementation. No hardware programmation

s/programmation/setup

> + must be done in this function. See port_vlan_add for this and details.
> +
> - port_vlan_add: bridge layer function invoked when a VLAN is configured
> (tagged or untagged) for the given switch port
>
> @@ -552,6 +558,12 @@ Bridge VLAN filtering
> function that the driver has to call for each VLAN the given port is a member
> of. A switchdev object is used to carry the VID and bridge flags.
>
> +- port_fdb_prepare: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge prepares the
> + installation of a Forwarding Database entry. If the operation is not
> + programmable, this function should return -EOPNOTSUPP to inform the bridge

s/programmable/supported

> + code to fallback to a software implementation. No hardware programmation

s/programmation/setup

Andrew