From: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 09:43:53 +0000
> The driver is using 802.1Q filtering identifiers (FIDs) to represent the
> different VLANs in the VLAN-aware bridge (only one is supported).
>
> However, the device cannot assign a VNI to such FIDs, which prevents the
> driver from supporting the enslavement of VxLAN devices to the
> VLAN-aware bridge.
>
> This patchset works around this limitation by emulating 802.1Q FIDs
> using 802.1D FIDs, which can be assigned a VNI and so far have only been
> used in conjunction with VLAN-unaware bridges.
>
> The downside of this approach is that multiple {Port,VID}->FID entries
> are required, whereas a single VID->FID entry is required with "true"
> 802.1Q FIDs.
>
> First four patches introduce the new FID family of emulated 802.1Q FIDs
> and the associated type of router interfaces (RIFs). Last patch flips
> the driver to use this new FID family.
>
> The diff is relatively small because the internal implementation of each
> FID family is contained and hidden in spectrum_fid.c. Different internal
> users (e.g., bridge, router) are aware of the different FID types, but
> do not care about their internal implementation. This makes it trivial
> to swap the current implementation of 802.1Q FIDs with the new one,
> using 802.1D FIDs.
Series applied, thanks Ido.
