linux/net/switchdev
Petr Machata f30f0601eb switchdev: Add helpers to aid traversal through lower devices
After the transition from switchdev operations to notifier chain (which
will take place in following patches), the onus is on the driver to find
its own devices below possible layer of LAG or other uppers.

The logic to do so is fairly repetitive: each driver is looking for its
own devices among the lowers of the notified device. For those that it
finds, it calls a handler. To indicate that the event was handled,
struct switchdev_notifier_port_obj_info.handled is set. The differences
lie only in what constitutes an "own" device and what handler to call.

Therefore abstract this logic into two helpers,
switchdev_handle_port_obj_add() and switchdev_handle_port_obj_del(). If
a driver only supports physical ports under a bridge device, it will
simply avoid this layer of indirection.

One area where this helper diverges from the current switchdev behavior
is the case of mixed lowers, some of which are switchdev ports and some
of which are not. Previously, such scenario would fail with -EOPNOTSUPP.
The helper could do that for lowers for which the passed-in predicate
doesn't hold. That would however break the case that switchdev ports
from several different drivers are stashed under one master, a scenario
that switchdev currently happily supports. Therefore tolerate any and
all unknown netdevices, whether they are backed by a switchdev driver
or not.

Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-11-23 18:02:24 -08:00
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Kconfig net: switchdev: Drop EXPERIMENTAL from description 2016-05-14 17:06:37 -04:00
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switchdev.c switchdev: Add helpers to aid traversal through lower devices 2018-11-23 18:02:24 -08:00