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Date:   Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:31:52 +0200
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
        Danielle Ratson <danieller@nvidia.com>,
        Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com>,
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        Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 48/66] bridge: switchdev: Notify about VLAN
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On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 09:22:34PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Danielle Ratson <danieller@nvidia.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 22ec19f3aee327806c37c9fa1188741574bc6445 ]
> 
> Drivers that support bridge offload need to be notified about changes to
> the bridge's VLAN protocol so that they could react accordingly and
> potentially veto the change.
> 
> Add a new switchdev attribute to communicate the change to drivers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Danielle Ratson <danieller@nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> ---

This looks like a bit of an odd patch to backport?
Are we also going to backport driver changes that make use of this new
switchdev notifier?