[PATCH] arm64: dts: marvell: espressobin: Add ethernet switch aliases

Pali Rohár pali at kernel.org
Mon Sep 7 13:47:05 EDT 2020


On Monday 07 September 2020 19:43:08 Andre Heider wrote:
> On 07/09/2020 19:35, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Monday 07 September 2020 19:23:03 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > > My dts-foo is a little rusty, but now that you labeled the ports in the
> > > > .dtsi, can this whole "switch0" block reduced to something like:
> > > > 
> > > > &switch0port1 {
> > > > 	label = "lan1";
> > > > };
> > > > 
> > > > &switch0port3 {
> > > > 	label = "wan";
> > > > };
> > > 
> > > Probably yes.
> > > 
> > > But that is definitely too much for stable.
> > 
> > Yes, this suggested change is not for stable, but looks like a nice
> > cleanup. So it could be done in followup patch.
> > 
> > Andre, are you going to prepare and test this followup change?
> 
> I can prep the patch if you like, but the suggested cleanup only affects the
> v7 dts files. I don't have that hardware version to test it, so could only
> send an untested patch.

As a result of this cleanup should be binary DTB file for V7 with same
structure as DTB file without such cleanup patch, right? And this test
(structure / content of compiled file) does not need particular hardware.



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