| Message ID | 20210221213355.1241450-4-olteanv@gmail.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | RFC |
| Delegated to: | Netdev Maintainers |
| Headers | show |
| Series | Documentation updates for switchdev and DSA | expand |
| Context | Check | Description |
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| netdev/cover_letter | success | Link |
| netdev/fixes_present | success | Link |
| netdev/patch_count | success | Link |
| netdev/tree_selection | success | Clearly marked for net-next |
| netdev/subject_prefix | success | Link |
| netdev/cc_maintainers | warning | 6 maintainers not CCed: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org kuba@kernel.org corbet@lwn.net davem@davemloft.net vladimir.oltean@nxp.com rdunlap@infradead.org |
| netdev/source_inline | success | Was 0 now: 0 |
| netdev/verify_signedoff | success | Link |
| netdev/module_param | success | Was 0 now: 0 |
| netdev/build_32bit | success | Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0 |
| netdev/kdoc | success | Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0 |
| netdev/verify_fixes | success | Link |
| netdev/checkpatch | success | total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks, 21 lines checked |
| netdev/build_allmodconfig_warn | success | Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0 |
| netdev/header_inline | success | Link |
| netdev/stable | success | Stable not CCed |
On 2/21/2021 13:33, Vladimir Oltean wrote: > From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> > > After Vivien's series from 2019 containing commits 27d4d19d7c82 ("net: > dsa: remove limitation of switch index value") and ab8ccae122a4 ("net: > dsa: add ports list in the switch fabric"), this is basically no longer > true. > > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst index fc98b5774fb6..cb59df6e80f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst @@ -360,14 +360,6 @@ DSA data structures are defined in ``include/net/dsa.h`` as well as Design limitations ================== -Limits on the number of devices and ports ------------------------------------------ - -DSA currently limits the number of maximum switches within a tree to 4 -(``DSA_MAX_SWITCHES``), and the number of ports per switch to 12 (``DSA_MAX_PORTS``). -These limits could be extended to support larger configurations would this need -arise. - Lack of CPU/DSA network devices ------------------------------- @@ -697,7 +689,6 @@ two subsystems and get the best of both worlds. Other hanging fruits -------------------- -- making the number of ports fully dynamic and not dependent on ``DSA_MAX_PORTS`` - allowing more than one CPU/management interface: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/365657 - porting more drivers from other vendors: