On 06/04/2022 21:16, Florian Fainelli wrote:
On 4/1/22 04:36, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
On 01/04/2022 13:40, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
On 2022-04-01 12:20, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
Disable gmac0 and gmac2 which are currently not used. This doesn't
seem to
be implemented yet on drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-bcma.c but
this
change is harmless, nonetheless.
It doesn't matter whether Linux respects that.
Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm47094-asus-rt-ac88u.dts | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm47094-asus-rt-ac88u.dts
b/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm47094-asus-rt-ac88u.dts
index 2f944d1c0330..0f5c5d576814 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm47094-asus-rt-ac88u.dts
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm47094-asus-rt-ac88u.dts
@@ -242,11 +242,19 @@ fixed-link {
};
};
+&gmac0 {
+ status = "disabled";
+};
+
&gmac1 {
nvmem-cells = <&et1macaddr>;
nvmem-cell-names = "mac-address";
};
+&gmac2 {
+ status = "disabled";
+};
I don't think that is correct. Those interfaces are still there and
they are actually connected to switch ports. If you configure your
switch properly you can use them.
Someone may want to use e.g. gmac0 & gmac1 with two sets of ports to
speed up network communication.
I think gmac2 is required if you want to enable FA (flow acceleration /
accelerator) - even though there isn't Linux driver for it yet.
They are not disabled / unpopulated / non functional interfaces.
I understand your point. However, while we're not supposed to care
whether the kernel respects the bindings, don't we also need to make
the bindings work on the version of the Linux kernel we're submitting
the bindings to?
With the current way DSA works, only one switch port can be used as a
CPU port. If we were to remove the status = "disabled" property from
port@8 which connects to gmac2, it'd break the communication between
the switch and the CPU on the current Linux kernel.
Are you sure? Because DSA still picks up the CPU port from lowest port
to highest port number. If port 6 is enabled, then it should take
precedence.
I just tested this on the router. You're right. We can keep port@8
enabled. I also made sure gmac0 is not connected to any switch GMAC.
I'll send a patch to address these.
If a new driver or a feature is introduced, we should update the
bindings accordingly afterwards.
For this reason, I don't see an issue with explaining the driver side
of it on the commit log for DT bindings.
DT bindings are not exactly static either. Someone could want to use
gmac2 instead of gmac1. In that case, I think they should change the
bindings themselves as it's for their own use.
This is true, but we are not changing the binding here, the binding is
the contract between the DTB provider and the DTB consumer, it describes
properties, their shape and size etc. We are just changing the status of
particular nodes.
Understood, thank you.
By the way, I don't see my applied patches on the link you referred to.
Arınç
