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docs: net: dsa: re-explain what port_fdb_dump actually does

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Switchdev has changed radically from its initial implementation, and the
currently provided definition is incorrect and very confusing.

Rewrite it in light of what it actually does.

Fixes: 2bedde1abb ("net: dsa: Move FDB dump implementation inside DSA")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Vladimir Oltean 2022-07-16 21:53:42 +03:00 committed by David S. Miller
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@ -970,9 +970,12 @@ Bridge VLAN filtering
the specified MAC address from the specified VLAN ID if it was mapped into
this port forwarding database
- ``port_fdb_dump``: bridge layer function invoked with a switchdev callback
function that the driver has to call for each MAC address known to be behind
the given port. A switchdev object is used to carry the VID and FDB info.
- ``port_fdb_dump``: bridge bypass function invoked by ``ndo_fdb_dump`` on the
physical DSA port interfaces. Since DSA does not attempt to keep in sync its
hardware FDB entries with the software bridge, this method is implemented as
a means to view the entries visible on user ports in the hardware database.
The entries reported by this function have the ``self`` flag in the output of
the ``bridge fdb show`` command.
- ``port_mdb_add``: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge wants to install
a multicast database entry. If the operation is not supported, this function