Re: [PATCH stable 0/6] net: dsa: b53: Correct learning for standalone ports

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Wed Mar 17 2021 - 10:15:14 EST


On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 05:35:43PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hi Greg, Sasha, Jaakub and David,
>
> This patch series contains backports for a change that recently made it
> upstream as f9b3827ee66cfcf297d0acd6ecf33653a5f297ef ("net: dsa: b53:
> Support setting learning on port") however that commit depends on
> infrastructure that landed in v5.12-rc1.
>
> The way this was fixed in the netdev group's net tree is slightly
> different from how it should be backported to stable trees which is why
> you will find a patch for each branch in the thread started by this
> cover letter. The commit used as a Fixes: base dates back from when the
> driver was first introduced into the tree since this should have been
> fixed from day one ideally.
>
> Let me know if this does not apply for some reason. The changes from 4.9
> through 4.19 are nearly identical and then from 5.4 through 5.11 are
> about the same.
>
> Thank you very much!

Florian, same comment I just sent to Tobias applies to you as well:
could you please call b53_br_fast_age when disabling address learning?