From: David S. Miller Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 02:03:44 +0000 (+0900) Subject: Merge branch 'bridge-make-setlink-dellink-notifications-more-accurate' X-Git-Tag: v5.15~9988^2~255 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8ef2097edf3c633207ab4e1a69a8f847a77a559e;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-starfive.git Merge branch 'bridge-make-setlink-dellink-notifications-more-accurate' Nikolay Aleksandrov says: ==================== bridge: make setlink/dellink notifications more accurate Before this set the bridge would generate a notification on vlan add or del even if they didn't actually do any changes, which confuses listeners and is generally not preferred. We could also lose notifications on actual changes if one adds a range of vlans and there's an error in the middle. The problem with just breaking and returning an error is that we could break existing user-space scripts which rely on the vlan delete to clear all existing entries in the specified range and ignore the non-existing errors (typically used to clear the current vlan config). So in order to make the notifications more accurate while keeping backwards compatibility we add a boolean that tracks if anything actually changed during the config calls. The vlan add is more difficult to fix because it always returns 0 even if nothing changed, but we cannot use a specific error because the drivers can return anything and we may mask it, also we'd need to update all places that directly return the add result, thus to signal that a vlan was created or updated and in order not to break overlapping vlan range add we pass down the new boolean that tracks changes to the add functions to check if anything was actually updated. v6: moved "changed" in else branch in br|nbp_vlan_add, thanks to Toshiaki Makita and retested everything again v5: fix br_vlan_add return (v1 leftover) spotted by Toshiaki Makita v4: set changed always to false in the non-vlan config case and retested v3: rebased to latest net-next and fixed non-vlan config functions reported by kbuild test bot v2: pass changed down to vlan add instead of masking errors ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- 8ef2097edf3c633207ab4e1a69a8f847a77a559e