Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 3/6] drivers: net: dsa: add locked fdb entry flag to drivers

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Thu Jul 21 2022 - 07:55:03 EST


On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 06:10:22PM +0200, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Okay, I see the problem you refer to. I think that we have to accept some
> limitations unless you think that just zeroing the specific port bit in the
> DPV would be a better solution, and there wouldn't be caveats with that
> besides having to do a FDB search etc to get the correct DPV if I am not too
> mistaken.

No, honestly I believe that what we should do to improve the limitation
is to have proper ATU database separation between one VLAN-unaware
bridge and another (i.e. what is now MV88E6XXX_FID_BRIDGED to be one FID
per bridge).