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authorVivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>2016-04-06 11:06:20 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-04-08 16:50:02 -0400
commitf453939c1a4a758312f799748b344bacd1db701f (patch)
tree329d011a447b81c36e2f4eb59878b3da42f78952
parent1089ac69776795074edb48ac15b8f6a36933bc0e (diff)
net: dsa: document missing functions
Add description for the missing port_vlan_prepare, port_fdb_prepare, port_fdb_dump functions in the DSA documentation. Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
index 3b196c304b73..013b67066b82 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
@@ -542,6 +542,12 @@ Bridge layer
Bridge VLAN filtering
---------------------
+- port_vlan_prepare: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge prepares the
+ configuration of a VLAN on the given port. If the operation is not supported
+ by the hardware, this function should return -EOPNOTSUPP to inform the bridge
+ code to fallback to a software implementation. No hardware setup must be done
+ in this function. See port_vlan_add for this and details.
+
- port_vlan_add: bridge layer function invoked when a VLAN is configured
(tagged or untagged) for the given switch port
@@ -552,6 +558,12 @@ Bridge VLAN filtering
function that the driver has to call for each VLAN the given port is a member
of. A switchdev object is used to carry the VID and bridge flags.
+- port_fdb_prepare: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge prepares the
+ installation of a Forwarding Database entry. If the operation is not
+ supported, this function should return -EOPNOTSUPP to inform the bridge code
+ to fallback to a software implementation. No hardware setup must be done in
+ this function. See port_fdb_add for this and details.
+
- port_fdb_add: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge wants to install a
Forwarding Database entry, the switch hardware should be programmed with the
specified address in the specified VLAN Id in the forwarding database
@@ -565,6 +577,10 @@ of DSA, would be the its port-based VLAN, used by the associated bridge device.
the specified MAC address from the specified VLAN ID if it was mapped into
this port forwarding database
+- port_fdb_dump: bridge layer function invoked with a switchdev callback
+ function that the driver has to call for each MAC address known to be behind
+ the given port. A switchdev object is used to carry the VID and FDB info.
+
TODO
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