netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/20] net: ethernet: Add qcom PPE driver

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <29d744c3-b06b-4959-acc1-288b2804356d@quicinc.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 23:49:35 +0800
From: Jie Luo <quic_luoj@...cinc.com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski
	<krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
CC: <agross@...nel.org>, <andersson@...nel.org>, <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>,
        <davem@...emloft.net>, <edumazet@...gle.com>, <kuba@...nel.org>,
        <pabeni@...hat.com>, <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>, <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
        <corbet@....net>, <catalin.marinas@....com>, <will@...nel.org>,
        <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>, <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        <shannon.nelson@....com>, <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
        <jasowang@...hat.com>, <brett.creeley@....com>,
        <rrameshbabu@...dia.com>, <joshua.a.hay@...el.com>, <arnd@...db.de>,
        <geert+renesas@...der.be>, <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>,
        <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>, <nfraprado@...labora.com>,
        <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>, <u-kumar1@...com>,
        <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>, <andrew@...n.ch>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>, <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <ryazanov.s.a@...il.com>,
        <ansuelsmth@...il.com>, <quic_kkumarcs@...cinc.com>,
        <quic_suruchia@...cinc.com>, <quic_soni@...cinc.com>,
        <quic_pavir@...cinc.com>, <quic_souravp@...cinc.com>,
        <quic_linchen@...cinc.com>, <quic_leiwei@...cinc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/20] net: ethernet: Add qcom PPE driver



On 1/10/2024 11:44 PM, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 01:24:06PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 10/01/2024 12:40, Luo Jie wrote:
>>> The PPE(packet process engine) hardware block is available in Qualcomm
>>> IPQ chipsets that support PPE architecture, such as IPQ9574 and IPQ5332.
>>> The PPE includes integrated ethernet MAC and PCS(uniphy), which is used
>>> to connect with external PHY devices by PCS. The PPE also includes
>>> various packet processing offload capabilities such as routing and
>>> briding offload, L2 switch capability, VLAN and tunnel processing
>>> offload.
>>>
>>> This patch series enables support for the PPE driver which intializes
>>> and configures the PPE, and provides various services for higher level
>>> network drivers in the system such as EDMA (Ethernet DMA) driver or a
>>> DSA switch driver for PPE L2 Switch, for Qualcomm IPQ SoCs.
>>
>> net-next is closed.
> 
> Also, please try to avoid sending patch-sets with more than 15 patches
> for net or net-next.
> 
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/maintainer-netdev.html#dividing-work-into-patches

Got it, at a later point when this review resumes, we will split the PPE 
driver patches into two series, one is for PPE switch core feature, 
another is for MAC/UNIPHY features. Hope this is fine.

Thanks for this comment.