Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: dsa: add fabric notifier

[David Miller]

From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri,  3 Feb 2017 13:20:15 -0500

> When a switch fabric is composed of multiple switch chips, these chips
> must be programmed accordingly when an event occurred on one of them.
> 
> Examples of such event include hardware bridging: when a Linux bridge
> spans interconnected chips, they must be programmed to allow external
> ports to ingress frames on their internal ports.
> 
> Another example is cross-chip hardware VLANs. Switch chips in-between
> interconnected bridge ports must also configure a given VLAN to allow
> packets to pass through them.
> 
> In order to support that, this patchset introduces a non-intrusive
> notifier mechanism. It adds a notifier head in every DSA switch tree
> (the said fabric), and a notifier block in every DSA switch chip.
 ...

Series applied, thanks Vivien.