Re: [PATCH v2 net 0/3] bridge: Add vlan filtering support for default pvid

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From: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:30:59 -0400

> Version 2 of the series to introduce the default pvid support to
> vlan filtering in the bridge.  VLAN 1 (as recommended by 802.1q spec)
> is used as default pvid on ports. 
> The the user can over-ride this configuration by configuring their
> own vlan information. 
> The user can additionally change the default value throught the
> sysfs interface (netlink comming shortly).
> The user can turn off default pvid functionality by setting default
> pvid to 0. 
> This series changes the default behavior of the bridge when
> vlan filtering is turned on.  Currently, ports without any vlan
> filtering configured will not recevie any traffic at all.  This patch
> changes the behavior of the above ports to receive only untagged traffic.
> 
> Since v2:
> - Add ability to turn off default_pvid settings.
> - Drop the automiatic filtering support based on configured vlan devices (will
>   be its own series)

Looks like a new feature to me, thus why is this being targetted at 'net'
instead of 'net-next'?




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