Re: [PATCH 4.19.y] net: dsa: mt7530: disable learning on standalone ports

[DENG Qingfang]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 12:19:23PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 11:57:53PM +0800, DENG Qingfang wrote:
> > Standalone ports should have address learning disabled, according to
> > the documentation:
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.14-rc7/networking/dsa/dsa.html#bridge-layer
> > dsa_switch_ops on 5.10 or earlier does not have .port_bridge_flags
> > function so it has to be done differently.
> > 
> > I've identified an issue related to this.
> 
> What issue is that?  Where was it reported?

See Florian's message here
https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20210317003549.3964522-2-f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx/

> 
> > > 2. A partial backport of this patch?
> > 
> > The other part does not actually fix anything.
> 
> Then why is it not ok to just take the whole thing?
> 
> When backporting not-identical-patches, something almost always goes
> wrong, so we prefer to take the original commit when ever possible.

Okay. MDB and tag ops can be backported as is, and broadcast/multicast
flooding can be implemented in .port_egress_floods. 

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h