[PATCH v7 net-next 00/10] dt-binding preparation for ocelot switches

Colin Foster colin.foster at in-advantage.com
Mon Jan 16 09:47:00 PST 2023


I saw on Patchwork I'd missed Krzysztof's CC. Apologies - I missed it
in a copy-paste error.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 07:56:03AM -1000, Colin Foster wrote:
> Ocelot switches have the abilitiy to be used internally via
> memory-mapped IO or externally via SPI or PCIe. This brings up issues
> for documentation, where the same chip might be accessed internally in a
> switchdev manner, or externally in a DSA configuration. This patch set
> is perparation to bring DSA functionality to the VSC7512, utilizing as
> much as possible with an almost identical VSC7514 chip.
> 
> This patch set changed quite a bit from v2, so I'll omit the background
> of how those sets came to be. Rob offered a lot of very useful guidance.
> My thanks.
> 
> At the end of the day, with this patch set, there should be a framework
> to document Ocelot switches (and any switch) in scenarios where they can
> be controlled internally (ethernet-switch) or externally (dsa-switch).
> 
> ---
> 
> v6 -> v7
>   * Add Reviewed / Acked on patch 1
>   * Clean up descriptions on Ethernet / DSA switch port bindings
> 
> v5 -> v6
>   * Rebase so it applies to net-next cleanly.
>   * No other changes - during the last submission round I said I'd
>     submit v6 with a change to move $dsa-port.yaml to outside the allOf
>     list. In retrospect that wasn't the right thing to do, because later
>     in the patch series the $dsa-port.yaml is removed outright. So I
>     believe the submission in v5 to keep "type: object" was correct.
> 
> v4 -> v5
>   * Sync DSA maintainers with MAINTAINERS file (new patch 1)
>   * Undo move of port description of mediatek,mt7530.yaml (patch 4)
>   * Move removal of "^(ethernet-)?switch(@.*)?$" in dsa.yaml from patch 4
>     to patch 8
>   * Add more consistent capitalization in title lines and better Ethernet
>     switch port description. (patch 8)
> 
> v3 -> v4
>   * Renamed "base" to "ethernet-ports" to avoid confusion with the concept
>     of a base class.
>   * Squash ("dt-bindings: net: dsa: mediatek,mt7530: fix port description location")
>     patch into ("dt-bindings: net: dsa: utilize base definitions for standard dsa
>     switches")
>   * Corrections to fix confusion about additonalProperties vs unevaluatedProperties.
>     See specific patches for details.
> 
> v2 -> v3
>   * Restructured everything to use a "base" iref for devices that don't
>     have additional properties, and simply a "ref" for devices that do.
>   * New patches to fix up brcm,sf2, qca8k, and mt7530
>   * Fix unevaluatedProperties errors from previous sets (see specific
>     patches for more detail)
>   * Removed redundant "Device Tree Binding" from titles, where applicable.
> 
> v1 -> v2
>   * Two MFD patches were brought into the MFD tree, so are dropped
>   * Add first patch 1/6 to allow DSA devices to add ports and port
>     properties
>   * Test qca8k against new dt-bindings and fix warnings. (patch 2/6)
>   * Add tags (patch 3/6)
>   * Fix vsc7514 refs and properties
> 
> ---
> 
> Colin Foster (10):
>   dt-bindings: dsa: sync with maintainers
>   dt-bindings: net: dsa: sf2: fix brcm,use-bcm-hdr documentation
>   dt-bindings: net: dsa: qca8k: remove address-cells and size-cells from
>     switch node
>   dt-bindings: net: dsa: utilize base definitions for standard dsa
>     switches
>   dt-bindings: net: dsa: allow additional ethernet-port properties
>   dt-bindings: net: dsa: qca8k: utilize shared dsa.yaml
>   dt-bindings: net: dsa: mediatek,mt7530: remove unnecessary dsa-port
>     reference
>   dt-bindings: net: add generic ethernet-switch
>   dt-bindings: net: add generic ethernet-switch-port binding
>   dt-bindings: net: mscc,vsc7514-switch: utilize generic
>     ethernet-switch.yaml
> 
>  .../bindings/net/dsa/arrow,xrs700x.yaml       |  2 +-
>  .../devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/brcm,b53.yaml |  2 +-
>  .../devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/brcm,sf2.yaml | 15 +++--
>  .../devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/dsa-port.yaml | 30 ++-------
>  .../devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/dsa.yaml      | 49 +++++++--------
>  .../net/dsa/hirschmann,hellcreek.yaml         |  2 +-
>  .../bindings/net/dsa/mediatek,mt7530.yaml     |  6 +-
>  .../bindings/net/dsa/microchip,ksz.yaml       |  2 +-
>  .../bindings/net/dsa/microchip,lan937x.yaml   |  2 +-
>  .../bindings/net/dsa/mscc,ocelot.yaml         |  2 +-
>  .../bindings/net/dsa/nxp,sja1105.yaml         |  2 +-
>  .../devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/qca8k.yaml    | 14 +----
>  .../devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/realtek.yaml  |  2 +-
>  .../bindings/net/dsa/renesas,rzn1-a5psw.yaml  |  2 +-
>  .../bindings/net/ethernet-switch-port.yaml    | 26 ++++++++
>  .../bindings/net/ethernet-switch.yaml         | 62 +++++++++++++++++++
>  .../bindings/net/mscc,vsc7514-switch.yaml     | 31 +---------
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |  2 +
>  18 files changed, 145 insertions(+), 108 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-switch-port.yaml
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet-switch.yaml
> 
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 



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