Re: [PATCH net-next 4/8] dt-bindings: net: add DT bindings for Microsemi Ocelot Switch

From: Rob Herring
Date: Mon Mar 26 2018 - 18:25:37 EST


On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 02:11:35PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 03/23/2018 01:11 PM, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > DT bindings for the Ethernet switch found on Microsemi Ocelot platforms.
> >
> > Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > .../devicetree/bindings/net/mscc-ocelot.txt | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mscc-ocelot.txt
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mscc-ocelot.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mscc-ocelot.txt
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..ee092a85b5a0
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mscc-ocelot.txt
> > @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
> > +Microsemi Ocelot network Switch
> > +===============================
> > +
> > +The Microsemi Ocelot network switch can be found on Microsemi SoCs (VSC7513,
> > +VSC7514)
> > +
> > +Required properties:
> > +- compatible: Should be "mscc,ocelot-switch"
> > +- reg: Must contain an (offset, length) pair of the register set for each
> > + entry in reg-names.
> > +- reg-names: Must include the following entries:
> > + - "sys"
> > + - "rew"
> > + - "qs"
> > + - "hsio"
> > + - "qsys"
> > + - "ana"
> > + - "portX" with X from 0 to the number of last port index available on that
> > + switch
> > +- interrupts: Should contain the switch interrupts for frame extraction and
> > + frame injection
> > +- interrupt-names: should contain the interrupt names: "xtr", "inj"
>
> You are not documenting the "ports" subnode(s).Please move the
> individual ports definition under a ports subnode, mainly for two reasons:
>
> - it makes it easy at the .dtsi level to have all ports disabled by default
>
> - this makes you strictly conforming to the DSA binding for Ethernet
> switches and this is good for consistency (both parsing code and just
> representation).

ports and port collide with the OF graph binding. It would be good if
this moved to ethernet-port(s) or similar.

Rob