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@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ more specifically with its VLAN filtering portion when configuring VLANs on top
of per-port slave network devices. Since DSA primarily deals with
MDIO-connected switches, although not exclusively, SWITCHDEV's
prepare/abort/commit phases are often simplified into a prepare phase which
-checks whether the operation is supporte by the DSA switch driver, and a commit
+checks whether the operation is supported by the DSA switch driver, and a commit
phase which applies the changes.
As of today, the only SWITCHDEV objects supported by DSA are the FDB and VLAN
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ Bridge layer
out at the switch hardware for the switch to (re) learn MAC addresses behind
this port.
-- port_stp_update: bridge layer function invoked when a given switch port STP
+- port_stp_state_set: bridge layer function invoked when a given switch port STP
state is computed by the bridge layer and should be propagated to switch
hardware to forward/block/learn traffic. The switch driver is responsible for
computing a STP state change based on current and asked parameters and perform
@@ -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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