Re: [RFC PATCH v2 net-next 01/16] net: dsa: call dsa_port_bridge_join when joining a LAG that is already in a bridge

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On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 01:18, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
>
> DSA can properly detect and offload this sequence of operations:
>
> ip link add br0 type bridge
> ip link add bond0 type bond
> ip link set swp0 master bond0
> ip link set bond0 master br0
>
> But not this one:
>
> ip link add br0 type bridge
> ip link add bond0 type bond
> ip link set bond0 master br0
> ip link set swp0 master bond0
>
> Actually the second one is more complicated, due to the elapsed time
> between the enslavement of bond0 and the offloading of it via swp0, a
> lot of things could have happened to the bond0 bridge port in terms of
> switchdev objects (host MDBs, VLANs, altered STP state etc). So this is
> a bit of a can of worms, and making sure that the DSA port's state is in
> sync with this already existing bridge port is handled in the next
> patches.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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