net: bridge: mst: Add helper to query a port's MST state
authorTobias Waldekranz <tobias@waldekranz.com>
Wed, 16 Mar 2022 15:08:51 +0000 (16:08 +0100)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Thu, 17 Mar 2022 23:49:58 +0000 (16:49 -0700)
commitf54fd0e163068ced4d0d27db64cd3cbda95b74e4
tree2af3ed1301b1f3b68ff513ff33f441f9a47dd09a
parent48d57b2e5f439246c4e12ed7705a5e3241294b03
net: bridge: mst: Add helper to query a port's MST state

This is useful for switchdev drivers who are offloading MST states
into hardware. As an example, a driver may wish to flush the FDB for a
port when it transitions from forwarding to blocking - which means
that the previous state must be discoverable.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@waldekranz.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
include/linux/if_bridge.h
net/bridge/br_mst.c