[PATCH] Fix Flooding: Disable by default on User ports and Enable on CPU ports

Russell King (Oracle) linux at armlinux.org.uk
Wed Mar 8 05:44:54 PST 2023


On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 04:34:11PM +0300, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
> Richard, will you send a new patch series for this and your other two
> patches? They are essential for the port5 <-> gmac1 link to work properly.
> Without them, port5 as a CPU port won't work properly.

... and maybe detail exactly what the effect of this is.

For example, does it affect multicast frames received on user ports
being multicast to other user ports when they are part of the same
bridge device (which is essential for IPv6 to function.)

Thanks.

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