From: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 14:35:37 -0800
> This patch series supports having VLAN devices on top of DSA/switch > ports while the switch has VLAN filtering globally turned on (as is the > case with Broadcom switches). Whether the switch does global or per-port > VLAN filtering, having VLAN entries for these VLAN devices is > beneficial. > > We take care of a few possibly problematic cases: > > - adding a VLAN device while there is an existing VLAN entry created by > a VLAN aware bridge. The entire bridge's VLAN database and not just > the specific bridge port is being checked to be safe and conserative > > - adding a bridge VLAN entry when there is an existing VLAN device > created is also not possible because that would lead to the bridge > being able to manipulate the VLAN device's VID/attributes under its feet > > - enslaving a VLAN device into a VLAN aware bridge since that duplicates > functionality already offered by the VLAN aware bridge > > Here are the different test cases that were run to exercise this: ... Series applied, thanks Florian.
