bridge: Add SWITCHDEV_FDB_FLUSH_TO_BRIDGE notifier
authorAlexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Thu, 10 Sep 2020 17:23:48 +0000 (19:23 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 15 Sep 2020 20:21:47 +0000 (13:21 -0700)
commitd05e8e68b07cef9d52bbf53e75fa5faea81e1da6
tree615a5e0169665ffc42a66ad9346e6a0a69b8c96c
parent10a6cfc0fc8208eff3d1dd8dce1487754213e337
bridge: Add SWITCHDEV_FDB_FLUSH_TO_BRIDGE notifier

so the switchdev can notifiy the bridge to flush non-permanent fdb entries
for this port. This is useful whenever the hardware fdb of the switchdev
is reset, but the netdev and the bridgeport are not deleted.

Note that this has the same effect as the IFLA_BRPORT_FLUSH attribute.

CC: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
CC: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
CC: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>
CC: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/net/switchdev.h
net/bridge/br.c