Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/6] net: dsa: propagate flags down towards drivers

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Thu Apr 06 2023 - 11:22:09 EST


On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 05:17:46PM +0200, Hans Schultz wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 18:07, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As a bug fix, stop reporting to switchdev those FDB entries with
> > BR_FDB_ADDED_BY_USER && !BR_FDB_STATIC. Then, after "net" is merged into
> > "net-next" next Thursday (the ship has sailed for today), add "bool static"
>
> It is probably too late today (now I have a Debian based VM that can do
> the selftests), but with this bug fix I have 1) not submitted bug fixes
> before and 2) it probably needs an appropriate explanation, where I
> don't know the problem well enough for general switchcores to submit
> with a suitable text.

Do you want me to try to submit this change as a bug fix?