Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: b53: Turn off Broadcom tags for more switches

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Jan 04 2018 - 09:58:11 EST


From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 22:02:29 -0800

> Models such as BCM5395/97/98 and BCM53125/24/53115 and compatible require that
> we turn on managed mode to actually act on Broadcom tags, otherwise they just
> pass them through on ingress (host -> switch) and don't insert them in egress
> (switch -> host). Turning on managed mode is simple, but requires us to
> properly support ARL misses on multicast addresses which is a much more
> involved set of changes not suitable for a bug fix for this release.
>
> Reported-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@xxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 7edc58d614d4 ("net: dsa: b53: Turn on Broadcom tags")
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied.