Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: motorcomm: Clear the MIB buffer on chip reset

From: David Yang

Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 22:53:48 EST


On Tue, Nov 3, 2026 at 12:44 AM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2026 at 06:11:21PM +0800, David Yang wrote:
> > .setup() can run again within one registration: removing another switch
> > from the tree tears the whole tree down
>
> Is D in DSA supported by the Motorcomm devices? Or is this tree always
> a single node?
>
> > Fixes: 186623f4aa72 ("net: dsa: yt921x: Add support for Motorcomm YT921x")
>
> What i'm trying to understand is, is this theoretical, but never
> happens? If so, it should be based on net-next. Or is this an issue
> which actually bothers somebody and so is justified having a Fixes:
> tag and posted to net?
>
> This is also what that automated email is about. We need information
> to decided if the correct tree has been picked. It frequently is wrong
> in the LLM age.
>
> Andrew

Motorcomm does support cascading, but not in our driver. So yes, this
is largely theoretical and I just follow what sashiko said.