Re: [PATCH net-next 08/11] net: dsa: rzn1-a5psw: Make DSA tag protocol configurable via OF data

From: Lad, Prabhakar

Date: Wed Nov 26 2025 - 15:02:46 EST


Hi Vladimir,

Thank you for the review.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 11:35:34AM +0000, Prabhakar wrote:
> > From: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Update the RZN1 A5PSW driver to obtain the DSA tag protocol from
> > device-specific data instead of using a hard-coded value. Add a new
> > `tag_proto` field to `struct a5psw_of_data` and use it in
> > `a5psw_get_tag_protocol()` to return the appropriate protocol for
> > each SoC.
> >
> > This allows future SoCs such as RZ/T2H and RZ/N2H, which use the
> > DSA_TAG_PROTO_RZT2H_ETHSW tag format, to share the same driver
> > infrastructure without code duplication.
>
> Again the twitching when reading the commit title. I thought this has
> something to do with the "dsa-tag-protocol" property from
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/dsa-port.yaml. The tagger *is*
> runtime-configurable if you implement the ds->ops->change_tag_protocol()
> API, and it's also possible to trigger that API function from OF
> properties. But this is not what the patch does, so it is confusing.
>
> I think it would be more natural to say "choose tagging protocol based
> on compatible string".
>
Ok, I will update the commit message in v2.

> > Signed-off-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Anyway I'm not reviewing this commit until the reason why you added a
> new name for this tagger becomes completely clear.
As discussed in patch 2/11 the format fields vary, so this change is
needed to support the new SoC.

Cheers,
Prabhakar