[PATCH net-next v5 0/9] net: dsa: mt7530: modernise register access and add two DSA ops
Andrew Lunn
andrew at lunn.ch
Wed Sep 2 05:34:26 PDT 2026
On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 04:37:43PM +0100, Daniel Golle wrote:
> The mt7530 driver carries its own register accessors that predate the
> regmap conversion and now largely duplicate what regmap already
> provides, including locking. Most of this series removes that layer.
>
> It first moves the MDIO bus locking into the switch regmap via
> .lock/.unlock callbacks, matching the PCS regmaps, so any path reaching
> the regmap is serialised automatically. With the wrappers no longer
> adding locking, the thin mt7530_mii_* indirection is folded away and the
> remaining accessors are replaced mechanically with the plain regmap API,
> using the coccinelle semantic patches included in the commit messages.
> The two remaining reset polls are converted to
> regmap_read_poll_timeout() and the then-unused dummy poll machinery is
> dropped. Open-coded register fields are converted to
> FIELD_GET/FIELD_PREP. None of this is intended to change behaviour.
>
> The last two patches implement .port_fast_age, which flushes dynamically
> learned MAC entries on topology changes, and .port_change_conduit, which
> moves a user port's CPU-port affinity at runtime.
>
> The swallowed MDIO errors Sashiko flagged on v4 5/8 have meanwhile been
> fixed in tree by "fix swallowed MDIO read errors" and "fix remaining
> swallowed MDIO access errors", both merged into net-next. This respin is
> rebased on top of them: regmap_* return values are no longer ignored,
> which is what most of the semantic patches had to be reworked for.
I only had a quick look at the series, but it seems O.K. to me.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>
Andrew
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