linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 08/30] net: dsa: mt7530: change p{5,6}_interface to p{5,6}

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Message-ID: <22fba48c-054d-ff0a-ae2c-b38f192b26f7@arinc9.com>
Date:   Sun, 11 Jun 2023 10:23:55 +0300
From:   Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Cc:     "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
        Landen Chao <Landen.Chao@...iatek.com>,
        DENG Qingfang <dqfext@...il.com>,
        Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
        Richard van Schagen <richard@...terhints.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 08/30] net: dsa: mt7530: change p{5,6}_interface
 to p{5,6}_configured

On 10.06.2023 20:55, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 01:57:27PM +0300, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
>> I was able to confirm all user ports of the MT7531BE switch transmit/receive
>> traffic to/from the SGMII CPU port and computer fine after getting rid of
>> priv->info->cpu_port_config().
>>
>> Tried all user ports being affine to the RGMII CPU port, that works too.
>>
>> https://github.com/arinc9/linux/commit/4e79313a95d45950cab526456ef0030286ba4d4e
> 
> Did you do black-box testing after removing the code, or were you
> also able to independently confirm that the configurations done by
> cpu_port_config() were later overwritten? I'm trying to disambiguate
> between "works by coincidence" and "works because the analysis was
> correct".

I did my testing, merely to make sure we didn't miss anything as Russell 
already stated that the configuration from cpu_port_config() is later 
overwritten.

I could put some dev_info around to confirm the code path that 
overwrites the configuration.

Arınç