From: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:41:16 -0800
> This patch series does a number of things in order to enable > management mode for bcm_sf2 (which could be easily extended to b53 with > proper testing later on). In order to get there, there were several use > cases that did not seem to be working correctly, such as: > > - VLAN devices on top of switch ports not being member of a bridge, with > other switch ports being bridged, with the bridge having VLAN > filtering enabled. > > - lack of multicast filtering by default on network ports which should > be happening in order for the non-bridged DSA ports to behave strictly > as Ethernet NICs with proper filering > > - improper or even lack of MDB programming requests for network ports > that are not part of a bridge, or when the bridge has multicast > snooping turned off > > Hopefully the changes to net/8021q and net/bridge are deemed acceptable. > > Here are some of the uses cases that were tested after this patch series > (all commands are running on the device being tested) and > iperf/ping/etc. should be working for/after all steps: ... At a high level these changes look good to me.
