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| author | Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> | 2016-04-06 11:06:20 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-04-08 16:50:02 -0400 |
| commit | f453939c1a4a758312f799748b344bacd1db701f (patch) | |
| tree | 329d011a447b81c36e2f4eb59878b3da42f78952 /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | 1089ac69776795074edb48ac15b8f6a36933bc0e (diff) | |
| download | linux-f453939c1a4a758312f799748b344bacd1db701f.tar.bz2 | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt | 16 |
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 ==== |