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Following patches will change the way of distributing port object changes from a switchdev operation to a switchdev notifier. The switchdev code currently recursively descends through layers of lower devices, eventually calling the op on a front-panel port device. The notifier will instead be sent referencing the bridge port device, which may be a stacking device that's one of front-panel ports uppers, or a completely unrelated device. rocker currently doesn't support any uppers other than bridge. Thus the only case that a stacked device could be validly referenced by port object notifications are bridge notifications for VLAN objects added to the bridge itself. But the driver explicitly rejects such notifications in rocker_world_port_obj_vlan_add(). It is therefore safe to assume that the only interesting case is that the notification is on a front-panel port netdevice. Subscribe to the blocking notifier chain. In the handler, filter out notifications on any foreign netdevices. Dispatch the new notifiers to rocker_port_obj_add() resp. _del() to maintain the behavior that the switchdev operation based code currently has. Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.