Re: [PATCH net-next v5 2/2] net: dsa: mxl862xx: implement bridge offloading

On 3/15/26 5:20 PM, Daniel Golle wrote:

(struct dsa_switch *ds, int port,
+				     struct dsa_bridge bridge,
+				     bool *tx_fwd_offload,
+				     struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
+{
+	struct mxl862xx_priv *priv = ds->priv;
+	struct mxl862xx_bridge *mxlbridge;
+
+	mxlbridge = mxl862xx_find_bridge(ds, bridge);
+	if (!mxlbridge) {
+		mxlbridge = mxl862xx_allocate_bridge(ds, bridge.num);
+		if (IS_ERR(mxlbridge))
+			return PTR_ERR(mxlbridge);
+	}
+
+	__set_bit(port, mxlbridge->portmap);

AFAICS mxl862xx_bridge role is to track the above portmap, which in turn
looks like a quite generic information which could be easily tracked by
the DSA core. I'm wondering if it would be useful to move implement
tracking there, and remove the mxl862xx_bridge entirely.

/P