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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 13:37:24 +0000
From: Alvin Šipraga <ALSI@...g-olufsen.dk>
To: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
CC: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "David S. Miller"
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/4] docs: net: dsa: update platform_data
 documentation

On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 09:35:16PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> We were documenting a bunch of stuff which was removed in commit
> 93e86b3bc842 ("net: dsa: Remove legacy probing support"). There's some
> further cleanup to do in struct dsa_chip_data, so rather than describing
> every possible field (when maybe we should be switching to kerneldoc
> format), just say what's important about it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

Reviewed-by: Alvin Šipraga <alsi@...g-olufsen.dk>

> ---
>  Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst | 23 +++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
> index 0c326a42eb81..676c92136a0e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
> @@ -413,18 +413,17 @@ PHYs, external PHYs, or even external switches.
>  Data structures
>  ---------------
>  
> -DSA data structures are defined in ``include/net/dsa.h`` as well as
> -``net/dsa/dsa_priv.h``:
> -
> -- ``dsa_chip_data``: platform data configuration for a given switch device,
> -  this structure describes a switch device's parent device, its address, as
> -  well as various properties of its ports: names/labels, and finally a routing
> -  table indication (when cascading switches)
> -
> -- ``dsa_platform_data``: platform device configuration data which can reference
> -  a collection of dsa_chip_data structures if multiple switches are cascaded,
> -  the conduit network device this switch tree is attached to needs to be
> -  referenced
> +DSA data structures are defined in ``include/linux/platform_data/dsa.h``,
> +``include/net/dsa.h`` as well as ``net/dsa/dsa_priv.h``:
> +
> +- ``dsa_chip_data``: platform data configuration for a given switch device.
> +  Most notably, it is necessary to the DSA core because it holds a reference to
> +  the conduit interface. It must be accessible through the
> +  ``ds->dev->platform_data`` pointer at ``dsa_register_switch()`` time. It is
> +  populated by board-specific code. The hardware switch driver may also have
> +  its own portion of ``platform_data`` description. In that case,
> +  ``ds->dev->platform_data`` can point to a switch-specific structure, which
> +  encapsulates ``struct dsa_chip_data`` as its first element.
>  
>  - ``dsa_switch_tree``: structure assigned to the conduit network device under
>    ``dsa_ptr``, this structure references a dsa_platform_data structure as well as
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>