From: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:16:35 -0700

> On 2/20/18 12:45 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> From: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com>
>> 
>> Up until now we only allowed VLAN devices to be put in a VLAN-unaware
>> bridge, but some users need the ability to enslave physical ports as
>> well.
>> 
>> This is achieved by mapping the port and VID 1 to the bridge's vFID,
>> instead of the port and the VID used by the VLAN device.
>> 
>> The above is valid because as long as the port is not enslaved to a
>> bridge, VID 1 is guaranteed to be configured as PVID and egress
>> untagged.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_switchdev.c | 12 +++++-------
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>> 
> 
> Maybe I am missing something in the setup, but I am not getting
> host-to-host connectivity. I booted a switch with this patch, configured
> a bridge:

I'm waiting for this discussion to be fully resolved before applying this
patch.  Just FYI...

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