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    net: dsa: sja1105: make devlink property best_effort_vlan_filtering true by default · 8841f6e6
    Vladimir Oltean authored
    The sja1105 driver has a limitation, extensively described under
    Documentation/networking/dsa/sja1105.rst and
    Documentation/networking/devlink/sja1105.rst, which says that when the
    ports are under a bridge with vlan_filtering=1, traffic to and from
    the network stack is not possible, unless the driver-specific
    best_effort_vlan_filtering devlink parameter is enabled.
    
    For users, this creates a 'wtf' moment. They need to go to the
    documentation and find about the existence of this property, then maybe
    install devlink and set it to true.
    
    Having best_effort_vlan_filtering enabled by the kernel by default
    delays that 'wtf' moment (maybe up to the point that it never even
    happens). The user doesn't need to care that the driver supports
    addressing the ports individually by retagging VLAN IDs until he/she
    needs to use more than 32 VLAN IDs (since there can be at most 32
    retagging rules). Only then do they need to think whether they need the
    full VLAN table, at the expense of no individual port addressing, or
    not.
    
    But the odds that an sja1105 user will need more than 32 VLANs
    terminated by the CPU is probably low. And, if we were to follow the
    principle that more advanced use cases should require more advanced
    preparation steps, then it makes more sense for ping to 'just work'
    while CPU termination of > 32 VLAN IDs to require a bit more forethought
    and possibly a driver-specific devlink param.
    
    So we should be able to safely change the default here, and make this
    driver act just a little bit more sanely out of the box.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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