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authorHauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>2019-02-22 20:07:45 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-02-23 18:38:00 -0800
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net: dsa: Remove documentation for port_fdb_prepare
This callback was removed some time ago, also remove the documentation. Fixes: 1b6dd556c304 ("net: dsa: Remove prepare phase for FDB") Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
index 25170ad7d25b..101f2b2c69ad 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt
@@ -533,16 +533,12 @@ 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
- associated with this VLAN ID
+ associated with this VLAN ID. If the operation is not supported, this
+ function should return -EOPNOTSUPP to inform the bridge code to fallback to
+ a software implementation.
Note: VLAN ID 0 corresponds to the port private database, which, in the context
of DSA, would be the its port-based VLAN, used by the associated bridge device.