From: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:02:56 +0300

> Petr says:
> 
> When offloading mirror-to-gretap, mlxsw needs to preroute the path that
> the encapsulated packet will take. That path may include a LAG device
> above a front panel port. So far, mlxsw resolved the path to the first
> up front panel slave of the LAG interface, but that only reflects
> administrative state of the port. It neglects to consider whether the
> port actually has a carrier, and what the LACP state is. This patch set
> aims to address these problems.
> 
> Patch #1 publishes team_port_get_rcu().
> 
> Then in patch #2, a new function is introduced,
> mlxsw_sp_port_dev_check(). That returns, for a given netdevice that is a
> slave of a LAG device, whether that device is "txable", i.e. whether the
> LAG master would send traffic through it. Since there's no good place to
> put LAG-wide helpers, introduce a new header include/net/lag.h.
> 
> Finally in patch #3, fix the slave selection logic to take into
> consideration whether a given slave has a carrier and whether it is
> txable.

Series applied, thank you.

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