Re: [PATCH v1 net-next 1/2] net: mscc: ocelot: remove redundant stats_layout pointers

[Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>]

Hi Colin,

On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 12:49:23PM -0800, Colin Foster wrote:
> Ever since commit 4d1d157fb6a4 ("net: mscc: ocelot: share the common stat
> definitions between all drivers") the stats_layout entry in ocelot and
> felix drivers have become redundant. Remove the unnecessary code.
> 
> Suggested-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Foster <colin.foster@in-advantage.com>
> ---

(please also the Microchip development list, people do seem to follow it
and do respond sometimes)

Before saying anything about this patch set, I wanted to check what's
the status with my downstream patches for the MAC Merge Layer counters.

There, vsc9959_stats_layout would get expanded to look like this:

static const struct ocelot_stat_layout vsc9959_stats_layout[OCELOT_NUM_STATS] = {
	OCELOT_COMMON_STATS,
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_ASSEMBLY_ERRS),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_SMD_ERRS),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_ASSEMBLY_OK),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_MERGE_FRAGMENTS),
	OCELOT_STAT(TX_MERGE_FRAGMENTS),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_OCTETS),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_UNICAST),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_MULTICAST),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_BROADCAST),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_SHORTS),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_FRAGMENTS),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_JABBERS),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_CRC_ALIGN_ERRS),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_SYM_ERRS),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_64),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_65_127),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_128_255),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_256_511),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_512_1023),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_1024_1526),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_1527_MAX),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_PAUSE),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_CONTROL),
	OCELOT_STAT(RX_PMAC_LONGS),
	OCELOT_STAT(TX_PMAC_OCTETS),
	OCELOT_STAT(TX_PMAC_UNICAST),
	OCELOT_STAT(TX_PMAC_MULTICAST),
	OCELOT_STAT(TX_PMAC_BROADCAST),
	OCELOT_STAT(TX_PMAC_PAUSE),
	OCELOT_STAT(TX_PMAC_64),
	OCELOT_STAT(TX_PMAC_65_127),
	OCELOT_STAT(TX_PMAC_128_255),
	OCELOT_STAT(TX_PMAC_256_511),
	OCELOT_STAT(TX_PMAC_512_1023),
	OCELOT_STAT(TX_PMAC_1024_1526),
	OCELOT_STAT(TX_PMAC_1527_MAX),
};

The issue is that not all Ocelot family switches support the MAC merge
layer. Namely, only vsc9959 does.

With your removal of the ability to have a custom per-switch stats layout,
the only remaining thing for vsc9959 to do is to add a "bool mm_supported"
to the common struct ocelot, and all the above extra stats will only be read
from the common code in ocelot_stats.c only if mm_supported is set to true.

What do you think, is this acceptable?