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

[Jie Luo]

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.