RE: [PATCH v5 2/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add Freescale DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver

[Razvan Stefanescu]

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> From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 5:26 PM
> To: Razvan Stefanescu <razvan.stefanescu@xxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add Freescale DPAA2
> Ethernet Switch driver
> 
> > Hello Andrew,
> >
> > The current driver implementation uses only a single FDB for the switch,
> > so  it is not possible configure multiple flooding domains to accommodate
> > ports partitioning.
> 
> Ah, O.K. Rather than break somebodies network by wrongly flooding, it
> would be better to return -EOPNOTSUPP when the requirement for the
> second FDB is met. The offload to hardware will then not happen, and
> the software bridge will do all the work.
> 
Thank you for your suggestion. I will add to the TODO list in v6.

Razvan
>     Andrew