From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.dide...@savoirfairelinux.com> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 13:20:15 -0500
> When a switch fabric is composed of multiple switch chips, these chips > must be programmed accordingly when an event occurred on one of them. > > Examples of such event include hardware bridging: when a Linux bridge > spans interconnected chips, they must be programmed to allow external > ports to ingress frames on their internal ports. > > Another example is cross-chip hardware VLANs. Switch chips in-between > interconnected bridge ports must also configure a given VLAN to allow > packets to pass through them. > > In order to support that, this patchset introduces a non-intrusive > notifier mechanism. It adds a notifier head in every DSA switch tree > (the said fabric), and a notifier block in every DSA switch chip. ... Series applied, thanks Vivien.
