Re: [PATCH net-next v3 5/5] net-next: dsa: add dsa support for Mediatek MT7530 switch

From: Andrey Melnikov
Date: Mon May 29 2017 - 06:44:22 EST


2017-05-26 8:54 GMT+03:00 Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On May 24, 2017 4:17:39 AM PDT, "Andrey Jr. Melnikov" <temnota.am@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>In gmane.linux.kernel sean.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> From: Sean Wang <sean.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> MT7530 is a 7-ports Gigabit Ethernet Switch that could be found on
>>> Mediatek router platforms such as MT7623A or MT7623N platform which
>>> includes 7-port Gigabit Ethernet MAC and 5-port Gigabit Ethernet PHY.
>>> Among these ports, The port from 0 to 4 are the user ports connecting
>>> with the remote devices while the port 5 and 6 are the CPU ports
>>> connecting into Mediatek Ethernet GMAC.
>>
>>> For port 6, it can communicate with the CPU via Mediatek Ethernet
>>GMAC
>>> through either the TRGMII or RGMII which could be controlled by
>>phy-mode
>>> in the dt-bindings to specify which mode is preferred to use. And for
>>> port 5, only RGMII can be specified. However, currently, only port 6
>>is
>>> being supported in this DSA driver.
>>
>>> The driver is made with the reference to qca8k and other existing DSA
>>> driver. The most of the essential callbacks of the DSA are already
>>> support in the driver, including tag insert for user port
>>distinguishing,
>>> port control, bridge offloading, STP setup and ethtool operation to
>>allow
>>> DSA to model each user port into a standalone netdevice as the other
>>DSA
>>> driver had done.
>>
>>What about JUMBO frames and large MTU support? devlink support?
>
> We don't have a ndo_change_mtu callback implemented for DSA network devices but that is probably how we should do it.
> Regarding devlink, Andrew added basic support for it but unlike mlxsw it is currently of mild interest. Do you have something specific in mind with devlink?

I want to see each ports behind the bridge as independent ethernet
devices. If I understand RTFM only devlink may expose this
configuration.