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Date:   Fri, 25 Nov 2022 08:49:18 +0100
From:   Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>
To:     Arun.Ramadoss@...rochip.com
Cc:     Woojung.Huh@...rochip.com, andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, pabeni@...hat.com, kernel@...gutronix.de,
        kuba@...nel.org, olteanv@...il.com, vivien.didelot@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 6/6] net: dsa: microchip: ksz8: move all DSA
 configurations to one location

On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 07:14:32AM +0000, Arun.Ramadoss@...rochip.com wrote:
> Hi Oleksij,
> 
> On Fri, 2022-11-25 at 06:52 +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > EXTERNAL EMAIL: Do not click links or open attachments unless you
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> > 
> > Hi Arun,
> > 
> > On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 03:05:27PM +0000, Arun.Ramadoss@...rochip.com
> >  wrote:
> > > Hi Oleksij,
> > > On Thu, 2022-11-24 at 11:14 +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > > > EXTERNAL EMAIL: Do not click links or open attachments unless you
> > > > know the content is safe
> > > > 
> > > > To make the code more comparable to KSZ9477 code, move DSA
> > > > configurations to the same location.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz8795.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
> > > >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz8795.c
> > > > b/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz8795.c
> > > > index 060e41b9b6ef..003b0ac2854c 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz8795.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz8795.c
> > > > @@ -1359,6 +1359,16 @@ int ksz8_setup(struct dsa_switch *ds)
> > > > 
> > > >         ds->mtu_enforcement_ingress = true;
> > > > 
> > > > +       /* We rely on software untagging on the CPU port, so that
> > > > we
> > > > +        * can support both tagged and untagged VLANs
> > > > +        */
> > > > +       ds->untag_bridge_pvid = true;
> > > > +
> > > > +       /* VLAN filtering is partly controlled by the global VLAN
> > > > +        * Enable flag
> > > > +        */
> > > > +       ds->vlan_filtering_is_global = true;
> > > > +
> > > >         ksz_cfg(dev, S_REPLACE_VID_CTRL, SW_FLOW_CTRL, true);
> > > > 
> > > >         /* Enable automatic fast aging when link changed
> > > > detected. */
> > > > @@ -1418,16 +1428,6 @@ int ksz8_switch_init(struct ksz_device
> > > > *dev)
> > > >         dev->phy_port_cnt = dev->info->port_cnt - 1;
> > > >         dev->port_mask = (BIT(dev->phy_port_cnt) - 1) | dev-
> > > > >info-
> > > > > cpu_ports;
> > > 
> > > Since you moved dsa related items to ksz8_setup, remaining items in
> > > ksz8_switch_init are
> > > - dev->cpu_port - Used in ksz_setup but called after the individual
> > > switch setup function. We can move it ksz8_setup.
> > > - dev->phy_port_cnt - Used in ksz8_vlan_filtering and
> > > ksz8_config_cpuport. We can move.
> > > - dev->port_mask - used in ksz_switch_register. So we cannot move.
> > > 
> > > To make the ksz8_switch_init and ksz9477_switch_init function
> > > similar,
> > > we can move dev->cpu_port and dev->phy_port_cnt from
> > > ksz8_switch_init
> > > to ksz8_setup
> > 
> > It make no sense to move this variables. Every place where they are
> > used, can be replaced with dsa functions like:
> > dsa_switch_for_each_user_port() or dsa_cpu_ports()/dsa_is_cpu_port()
> > Making this changes within this patch set make no sense to.
> 
> Agreed. 
> I thought of cleaning up
> ksz8_switch_init/ksz9477_switch_init/lan937x_switch_init, since these
> functions are not performing any useful activity other than
> initializing these variables. Similarly all the exit function are
> performing same reset function. I thought these init and exit function
> in the ksz_dev_ops structure is reduntant.

I'll try to add ore cleanups to my currently pending patch set.
Currently I'm working on following ksz8 related tasks:
- add MTU configuration support
- add stats64 support
- fix fdb_dump and add fdb_add/del support
- fix PHY loopback support to make selftest work

Regards,
Oleksij
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