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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 3/6] drivers: net: dsa: add locked fdb entry
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On 2022-08-25 11:36, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 01:41:51PM +0200, netdev@kapio-technology.com 
> wrote:
>> On 2022-08-23 08:48, Ido Schimmel wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm not good at naming, but "blackhole" is at least consistent with what
>> > we already have for routes and nexthop objects.
>> >
>> 
>> I have changed it the name "masked", as that is also the term used in 
>> the
>> documentation for the zero-DPV entries, and I think that it will 
>> generally
>> be a more accepted term.
> 
> "blackhole" is an already accepted term and at least to me it is much
> more clear than "masked". Keep in mind that both L2 neighbours (FDB) 
> and
> L3 neighbours share the same uAPI and eventually we might want to 
> extend
> the use of this flag for L3 neighbours (at least Spectrum supports it),
> so it needs to make sense for both.

I have changed the name of the flag to 'blackhole', but the struct entry 
in switchdev_notifier_fdb_info and a function input parameter is still 
named 'masked'. If that should be changed before I send out V5, please 
let me know as I hope to get this patch set accepted.