Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 00/12] NXP SJA1105 DSA driver

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 03:18, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patchset adds a DSA driver for the SPI-controlled NXP SJA1105
> switch.  Due to the hardware's unfriendliness, most of its state needs
> to be shadowed in kernel memory by the driver. To support this and keep
> a decent amount of cleanliness in the code, a new generic API for
> converting between CPU-accessible ("unpacked") structures and
> hardware-accessible ("packed") structures is proposed and used.
>
> The driver is GPL-2.0 licensed. The source code files which are licensed
> as BSD-3-Clause are hardware support files and derivative of the
> userspace NXP sja1105-tool program, which is BSD-3-Clause licensed.
>
> TODO items:
> * Add support for traffic.
> * Add full support for the P/Q/R/S series. The patches were mostly
>   tested on a first-generation T device.
> * Add timestamping support and PTP clock manipulation.
> * Figure out how the tc-taprio hardware offload that was just proposed
>   by Vinicius can be used to configure the switch's time-aware scheduler.
> * Rework link state callbacks to use phylink once the SGMII port
>   is supported.
>
> Changes in v4:
> 1. Previous patchset was broken apart, and for the moment the driver is
>    configuring the switch as unmanaged. Support for regular and management
>    traffic, as well as for PTP timestamping, will be submitted once the
>    basic driver is accepted. Some core DSA patches were also broken out
>    of the series, and are a dependency for this series:
>    https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/?series=105069
> 2. Addressed Jiri Pirko's feedback about too generic function and macro
>    naming.
> 3. Re-introduced ETH_P_DSA_8021Q.
>
> v3 patchset can be found at:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/12/978
>
> Changes in v3:
> 1. Removed the patch for a dedicated Ethertype to use with 802.1Q DSA
>    tagging
> 2. Changed the SJA1105 switch tagging protocol sysfs label from
>    "sja1105" to "8021q" to denote to users such as tcpdump that the
>    structure is more generic.
> 3. Respun previous patch "net: dsa: Allow drivers to modulate between
>    presence and absence of tagging". Current equivalent patch is called
>    "net: dsa: Allow drivers to filter packets they can decode source
>    port from" and at least allows reception of management traffic during
>    the time when switch tagging is not enabled.
> 4. Added DSA-level fixes for the bridge core not unsetting
>    vlan_filtering when ports leave. The global VLAN filtering is treated
>    as a special case. Made the mt7530 driver use this. This patch
>    benefits the SJA1105 because otherwise traffic in standalone mode
>    would no longer work after removing the ports from a vlan_filtering
>    bridge, since the driver and the hardware would be in an inconsistent
>    state.
> 5. Restructured the documentation as rst. This depends upon the recently
>    submitted "[PATCH net-next] Documentation: net: dsa: transition to
>    the rst format": https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1084658/.
>
> v2 patchset can be found at:
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg563454.html
>
> Changes in v2:
> 1. Device ID is no longer auto-detected but enforced based on explicit DT
>    compatible string. This helps with stricter checking of DT bindings.
> 2. Group all device-specific operations into a sja1105_info structure and
>    avoid using the IS_ET() and IS_PQRS() macros at runtime as much as possible.
> 3. Added more verbiage to commit messages and documentation.
> 4. Treat the case where RGMII internal delays are requested through DT bindings
>    and return error.
> 5. Miscellaneous cosmetic cleanup in sja1105_clocking.c
> 6. Not advertising link features that are not supported, such as pause frames
>    and the half duplex modes.
> 7. Fixed a mistake in previous patchset where the switch tagging was not
>    actually enabled (lost during a rebase). This brought up another uncaught
>    issue where switching at runtime between tagging and no-tagging was not
>    supported by DSA. Fixed up the mistake in "net: dsa: sja1105: Add support
>    for traffic through standalone ports", and added the new patch "net: dsa:
>    Allow drivers to modulate between presence and absence of tagging" to
>    address the other issue.
> 8. Added a workaround for switch resets cutting a frame in the middle of
>    transmission, which would throw off some link partners.
> 9. Changed the TPID from ETH_P_EDSA (0xDADA) to a newly introduced one:
>    ETH_P_DSA_8021Q (0xDADB). Uncovered another mistake in the previous patchset
>    with a missing ntohs(), which was not caught because 0xDADA is
>    endian-agnostic.
> 10. Made NET_DSA_TAG_8021Q select VLAN_8021Q
> 11. Renamed __dsa_port_vlan_add to dsa_port_vid_add and not to
>     dsa_port_vlan_add_trans, as suggested, because the corresponding _del function
>     does not have a transactional phase and the naming is more uniform this way.
>
> v1 patchset can be found at:
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg561589.html
>
> Changes from RFC:
> 1. Removed the packing code for the static configuration tables that were
>    not currently used
> 2. Removed the code for unpacking a static configuration structure from
>    a memory buffer (not used)
> 3. Completely removed the SGMII stubs, since the configuration is not
>    complete anyway.
> 4. Moved some code from the SJA1105 introduction commit into the patch
>    that used it.
> 5. Made the code for checking global VLAN filtering generic and made b53
>    driver use it.
> 6. Made mt7530 driver use the new generic dp->vlan_filtering
> 7. Fixed check for stringset in .get_sset_count
> 8. Minor cleanup in sja1105_clocking.c
> 9. Fixed a confusing typo in DSA
>
> RFC can be found at:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg291717.html
>
> Vladimir Oltean (12):
>   lib: Add support for generic packing operations
>   net: dsa: Introduce driver for NXP SJA1105 5-port L2 switch
>   net: dsa: sja1105: Add support for FDB and MDB management
>   net: dsa: sja1105: Error out if RGMII delays are requested in DT
>   ether: Add dedicated Ethertype for pseudo-802.1Q DSA tagging
>   net: dsa: sja1105: Add support for VLAN operations
>   net: dsa: sja1105: Add support for ethtool port counters
>   net: dsa: sja1105: Add support for configuring address aging time
>   net: dsa: sja1105: Prevent PHY jabbering during switch reset
>   net: dsa: sja1105: Reject unsupported link modes for AN
>   Documentation: net: dsa: Add details about NXP SJA1105 driver
>   dt-bindings: net: dsa: Add documentation for NXP SJA1105 driver
>
>  .../devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/sja1105.txt   |  157 ++
>  Documentation/networking/dsa/index.rst        |    1 +
>  Documentation/networking/dsa/sja1105.rst      |  167 ++
>  Documentation/packing.txt                     |  150 ++
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   14 +
>  drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig                       |    2 +
>  drivers/net/dsa/Makefile                      |    1 +
>  drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/Kconfig               |   15 +
>  drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/Makefile              |   10 +
>  drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105.h             |  154 ++
>  drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_clocking.c    |  602 +++++++
>  .../net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_dynamic_config.c  |  533 ++++++
>  .../net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_dynamic_config.h  |   43 +
>  drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_ethtool.c     |  418 +++++
>  drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_main.c        | 1459 +++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_spi.c         |  591 +++++++
>  .../net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_static_config.c   |  988 +++++++++++
>  .../net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_static_config.h   |  254 +++
>  include/linux/dsa/sja1105.h                   |   23 +
>  include/linux/packing.h                       |   49 +
>  include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h                 |    1 +
>  lib/Makefile                                  |    2 +-
>  lib/packing.c                                 |  211 +++
>  23 files changed, 5844 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/sja1105.txt
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/networking/dsa/sja1105.rst
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/packing.txt
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_clocking.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_dynamic_config.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_dynamic_config.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_ethtool.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_main.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_spi.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_static_config.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_static_config.h
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/dsa/sja1105.h
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/packing.h
>  create mode 100644 lib/packing.c
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>

Hi Dave,

Just thought I'd check up on this and found something that looks like a mistake.
In patchwork it looks like the series is in the "Changes Requested"
state. However I didn't notice any comment that was requesting any
change?

Thank you,
-Vladimir