Re: [PATCH] net: bridge: multicast: notify switchdev driver whenever MC processing gets disabled

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On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:14:26 +0200 Oleksandr Mazur wrote:
> Whenever bridge driver hits the max capacity of MDBs, it disables
> the MC processing (by setting corresponding bridge option), but never
> notifies switchdev about such change (the notifiers are called only upon
> explicit setting of this option, through the registered netlink interface).
> 
> This could lead to situation when Software MDB processing gets disabled,
> but this event never gets offloaded to the underlying Hardware.
> 
> Fix this by adding a notify message in such case.

Any comments on this one?

We have drivers offloading mdb so presumably this should have a Fixes
tag and go to net, right?



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