Documentation: networking: dsa: document the port_bridge_flags method

The documentation was already lagging behind by not mentioning the old
version of port_bridge_flags (port_set_egress_floods). So now we are
skipping one step and just explaining how a DSA driver should configure
address learning and flooding settings.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
index b90a852e53296f9d2bf75a0a92684e27fc2b02c2..9c287dfd3c453065fce74a1c09b59add154ac1a0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
@@ -619,6 +619,17 @@ Bridge layer
   computing a STP state change based on current and asked parameters and perform
   the relevant ageing based on the intersection results
 
+- ``port_bridge_flags``: bridge layer function invoked when a port must
+  configure its settings for e.g. flooding of unknown traffic or source address
+  learning. The switch driver is responsible for initial setup of the
+  standalone ports with address learning disabled and egress flooding of all
+  types of traffic, then the DSA core notifies of any change to the bridge port
+  flags when the port joins and leaves a bridge. DSA does not currently manage
+  the bridge port flags for the CPU port. The assumption is that address
+  learning should be statically enabled (if supported by the hardware) on the
+  CPU port, and flooding towards the CPU port should also be enabled, due to a
+  lack of an explicit address filtering mechanism in the DSA core.
+
 Bridge VLAN filtering
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