From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.dide...@savoirfairelinux.com> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:09:37 -0500
> This patchset simplifies the DSA layer. > > A switch may support multiple bridges with the same hardware VLAN. Thus a > check > such as dsa_bridge_check_vlan_range must be moved from the DSA layer to the > concerned driver. > > The first purpose of this patchset is to help moving this check to the > mv88e6xxx driver, which is the only one affected at the moment. > > To do that, pass directly the bridge net_device structure down to the DSA > drivers, instead of calculating a bitmask of bridge members. > > The second purpose is to prepare the replacement of the complex > port_vlan_getnext approach. A second patchset is ready to follow, implementing > port_vlan_dump and thus simplifying the DSA slave code one more time. > > Note that this patchset applies on top of https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/5/532. Series applied, thanks Vivien.
