Re: [PATCH net-next v1 5/8] net: dsa: realtek: rtl8365mb: store the egress queue count per chip
From: Linus Walleij
Date: Mon Oct 05 2026 - 11:21:00 EST
On Fri, Oct 2, 2026 at 1:58 PM Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Store the number of egress queues in the per-chip info structure and
> advertise it through ds->num_tx_queues, following the ksz driver
> (struct ksz_chip_data.num_tx_queues).
>
> The queue count is a per-chip hardware property, and this driver supports
> several chips of the rtl8367c family. All currently-supported chips expose
> eight queues, but keeping the count in chip_info lets the QoS code that
> follows program the priority-to-queue map via the ieee8021q helpers for
> whatever queue count a chip carries, so the 802.1Q collapse is correct
> rather than hard-coded to eight.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
RTL8366RB has 8 queues so it's fine to keep this separate
per-subdriver.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@xxxxxxxxxx>
Yours,
Linus Walleij