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

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On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 11:50:33AM +0200, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 2022-07-08 11:15, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > When the possibility for it to be true will exist, _all_ switchdev
> > drivers will need to be updated to ignore that (mlxsw, cpss, ocelot,
> > rocker, prestera, etc etc), not just DSA. And you don't need to
> > propagate the is_locked flag to all individual DSA sub-drivers when none
> > care about is_locked in the ADD_TO_DEVICE direction, you can just ignore
> > within DSA until needed otherwise.
> > 
> 
> Maybe I have it wrong, but I think that Ido requested me to send it to all
> the drivers, and have them ignore entries with is_locked=true ...

I don't think Ido requested you to ignore is_locked from all DSA
drivers, but instead from all switchdev drivers maybe. Quite different.

In any case I'm going to take a look at this patch set more closely and
run the selftest on my Marvell switch, but I can't do this today
unfortunately. I'll return with more comments.



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