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If firmware reports that it supports hardware switch capabilities, driver needs to track and notify device whenever broadcast domain of a particular network device changes (ie. whenever it's upper master device changes). Firmware needs a unique ID to tell broadcast domains from each other which is an opaque number otherwise. For that purpose we can use netspace:ifidx pair to uniquely identify each broadcast domain: - if netdev is not part of a bridge, then use it's own ifidx as a broadcast domain ID - if netdev is part of a bridge, then use bridge netdev ifidx as broadcast domain ID Firmware makes sure that packets are only forwarded between interfaces marked with the same broadcast domain ID. Signed-off-by: Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.