Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 2/5] net: dsa: propagate flags down towards drivers

[netdev]

On 2023-01-19 00:01, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 11:35:08PM +0100, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> wrote:

> > When the new dynamic flag is true, all drivers will ignore it in patch 
> > #3,
> > so basically nothing will change by that.
>
> This is not true, because it assumes that DSA never called 
> port_fdb_add()
> up until now for bridge FDB entries with the BR_FDB_STATIC flag unset,
> which is incorrect (it did).
>
> So what will change is that drivers which used to react to those bridge
> FDB entries will stop doing so.

So the solution to this problem could be to only set the is_dyn flag in 
combination with the added_by_user flag. So an 'and' operation with the 
two in br_switchdev_fdb_populate()?