netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/9] net: dsa: marvell: Provide per device information about max frame size

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Message-ID: <20221114095228.6de479ec@wsk>
Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2022 09:52:28 +0100
From:   Lukasz Majewski <lukma@...x.de>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] net: dsa: marvell: Provide per device information
 about max frame size

Hi Andrew,

> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 04:36:37PM +0100, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> >   
> > > On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 09:23:27AM +0100, Lukasz Majewski wrote:  
> > > > Different Marvell DSA switches support different size of max
> > > > frame bytes to be sent.
> > > > 
> > > > For example mv88e6185 supports max 1632B, which is now in-driver
> > > > standard value. On the other hand - mv88e6071 supports 2048
> > > > bytes.
> > > > 
> > > > As this value is internal and may be different for each switch
> > > > IC new entry in struct mv88e6xxx_info has been added to store
> > > > it.
> > > > 
> > > > When the 'max_frame_size' is not defined (and hence zeroed by
> > > > the kvzalloc()) the default of 1632 bytes is used.    
> > > 
> > > I would prefer every entry states the value.  
> > 
> > You mean to add it explicitly (i.e. for each supported switch
> > version) to the struct mv88e6xxx_ops ?  
> 
> To the info structure. You added it for just your devices and left it
> to 0 for the rest. Rather than special case 0, always set the value
> and remove the special case. Maybe even -EINVAL if you find a 0 there.
> 

Ok.

>    Andrew


Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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