Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] dt-bindings: net: dsa: mt7530: replace label = "cpu" with proper checks

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Tue Sep 13 2022 - 13:37:18 EST


On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 06:55:05PM +0300, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
> On 12.09.2022 20:50, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > The fact that some DSA device trees use 'label = "cpu"' for the CPU port
> > is nothing but blind cargo cult copying. The 'label' property was never
> > part of the DSA DT bindings for anything except the user ports, where it
> > provided a hint as to what name the created netdevs should use.
> >
> > DSA does use the "cpu" port label to identify a CPU port in dsa_port_parse(),
> > but this is only for non-OF code paths (platform data).
> >
> > The proper way to identify a CPU port is to look at whether the
> > 'ethernet' phandle is present.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
>
> I realised "dt-bindings: net: dsa: mt7530:" prefix is used here instead of
> the usual "dt-bindings: net: dsa: mediatek,mt7530:". Does this matter?

Since "mt7530" implies "mediatek", I preferred to skip it.