On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 01:06:46AM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
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> The API for this one was chosen to be different than the one for
> .port_vlan_add and .port_vlan_prepare because
> (a) the list of dsa_switch_ops is growing bigger but in this case there
>     is no justification for it. For example there are some drivers that
>     don't do anything in .port_vlan_prepare, and likewise, they may not
>     need to do anything in .port_vlan_filtering_prepare either
> (b) the DSA API should be as close as possible to the switchdev API
>     except when there's a strong reason for that not to be the case. In
>     this situation, I don't see why it would be different.

I understand that this new function prototype is not to everyone's
taste?

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