Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/16] net: dsa: turn arrays of ports into a list

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:51:14 -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> The dsa_switch structure represents the physical switch device itself,
> and is allocated by the driver. The dsa_switch_tree and dsa_port structures
> represent the logical switch fabric (eventually composed of multiple switch
> devices) and its ports, and are allocated by the DSA core.
> 
> This branch lists the logical ports directly in the fabric which simplifies
> the iteration over all ports when assigning the default CPU port or configuring
> the D in DSA in drivers like mv88e6xxx.
> 
> This also removes the unique dst->cpu_dp pointer and is a first step towards
> supporting multiple CPU ports and dropping the DSA_MAX_PORTS limitation.
> 
> Because the dsa_port structures are not tight to the dsa_switch structure
> anymore, we do not need to provide an helper for the drivers to allocate a
> switch structure. Like in many other subsystems, drivers can now embed their
> dsa_switch structure as they wish into their private structure. This will
> be particularly interesting for the Broadcom drivers which were currently
> limited by the dynamically allocated array of DSA ports.
> 
> The series implements the list of dsa_port structures, makes use of it,
> then drops dst->cpu_dp and the dsa_switch_alloc helper.

Applied, thanks!