On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 11:57:53PM +0800, DENG Qingfang wrote:
Hi Sasha,
On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 11:29 PM Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org wrote:
What's the reasoning behind:
- Backporting this patch?
Standalone ports should have address learning disabled, according to the documentation: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.14-rc7/networking/dsa/dsa.html#bridge-lay... dsa_switch_ops on 5.10 or earlier does not have .port_bridge_flags function so it has to be done differently.
I've identified an issue related to this.
What issue is that? Where was it reported?
- A partial backport of this patch?
The other part does not actually fix anything.
Then why is it not ok to just take the whole thing?
When backporting not-identical-patches, something almost always goes wrong, so we prefer to take the original commit when ever possible.
thanks,
greg k-h