Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 00/13] add support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Mon Jan 30 2023 - 10:31:20 EST


On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 11:35:46AM -0800, Colin Foster wrote:
> This patch series is a continuation to add support for the VSC7512:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/list/?series=674168&state=*
>
> That series added the framework and initial functionality for the
> VSC7512 chip. Several of these patches grew during the initial
> development of the framework, which is why v1 will include changelogs.
> It was during v9 of that original MFD patch set that these were dropped.
>
> With that out of the way, the VSC7512 is mainly a subset of the VSC7514
> chip. The 7512 lacks an internal MIPS processor, but otherwise many of
> the register definitions are identical. That is why several of these
> patches are simply to expose common resources from
> drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/*.
>
> This patch only adds support for the first four ports (swp0-swp3). The
> remaining ports require more significant changes to the felix driver,
> and will be handled in the future.

For the whole series:

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx> # regression

A minor nitpick after this is merged: please clean up and unexport stuff
from include/soc/mscc/vsc7514_regs.h which was added with your previous
approaches and then we steered mid-way.

Congratulations!