On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 2:59 AM Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.olt...@nxp.com> wrote:
> Since the introduction of the switchdev API, port attributes were
> transmitted to drivers for offloading using a two-step transactional
> model, with a prepare phase that was supposed to catch all errors, and a
> commit phase that was supposed to never fail.
>
> Some classes of failures can never be avoided, like hardware access, or
> memory allocation. In the latter case, merely attempting to move the
> memory allocation to the preparation phase makes it impossible to avoid
> memory leaks, since commit 91cf8eceffc1 ("switchdev: Remove unused
> transaction item queue") which has removed the unused mechanism of
> passing on the allocated memory between one phase and another.
>
> It is time we admit that separating the preparation from the commit
> phase is something that is best left for the driver to decide, and not
> something that should be baked into the API, especially since there are
> no switchdev callers that depend on this.
>
> This patch removes the struct switchdev_trans member from switchdev port
> attribute notifier structures, and converts drivers to not look at this
> member.
>
> In part, this patch contains a revert of my previous commit 2e554a7a5d8a
> ("net: dsa: propagate switchdev vlan_filtering prepare phase to
> drivers").
>
> For the most part, the conversion was trivial except for:
> - Rocker's world implementation based on Broadcom OF-DPA had an odd
> implementation of ofdpa_port_attr_bridge_flags_set. The conversion was
> done mechanically, by pasting the implementation twice, then only
> keeping the code that would get executed during prepare phase on top,
> then only keeping the code that gets executed during the commit phase
> on bottom, then simplifying the resulting code until this was obtained.
> - DSA's offloading of STP state, bridge flags, VLAN filtering and
> multicast router could be converted right away. But the ageing time
> could not, so a shim was introduced and this was left for a further
> commit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.olt...@nxp.com>
For RTL8366RB it seems to do what the commit text says so:
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.wall...@linaro.org>
Yours,
Linus Walleij
