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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, robh+dt@kernel.org,
	krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org,
	Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] net: ethernet: renesas: Add Ethernet Switch driver
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 16:11:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y1FXHDHxD4w7v3d1@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ccd7f1fc-b2e2-7acf-d7fd-85191564603a@gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 07:23:26PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/19/2022 1:35 AM, Yoshihiro Shimoda wrote:
> > Add Renesas Ethernet Switch driver for R-Car S4-8 to be used as an
> > ethernet controller.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
> 
> How can this be a switch driver when it does not include any switchdev
> header files nor does it attempt to be using the DSA framework? You are
> certainly duplicating a lot of things that DSA would do for you like
> managing PHYs and registering per-port nework devices. Why?

Hi Florian

It is not clear yet if this is actually a DSA switch. I asked these
questions a few revisions ago and it actually looks like it is a pure
switchdev switch. It might be possible to make it a DSA switch. It is
a bit fuzzy, since it is all internal and integrated.

  Andrew

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-20 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-19  8:35 [PATCH v4 0/3] net: ethernet: renesas: Add Ethernet Switch driver Yoshihiro Shimoda
2022-10-19  8:35 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] dt-bindings: net: renesas: Document Renesas Ethernet Switch Yoshihiro Shimoda
2022-10-19 12:37   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2022-10-20  1:31     ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2022-10-20 12:30       ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2022-10-19  8:35 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] net: ethernet: renesas: Add Ethernet Switch driver Yoshihiro Shimoda
2022-10-19 10:28   ` kernel test robot
2022-10-24 15:27     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-10-24 19:55       ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-10-24 20:35         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-10-24 20:47           ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-10-25  4:39       ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2022-10-25  6:48         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-10-25 11:24           ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2022-10-20  2:23   ` Florian Fainelli
2022-10-20  7:35     ` Yoshihiro Shimoda
2022-10-20 14:11     ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2022-10-24 23:04       ` Florian Fainelli
2022-10-20 20:26   ` kernel test robot
2022-10-19  8:35 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] net: ethernet: renesas: rswitch: Add R-Car Gen4 gPTP support Yoshihiro Shimoda

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