Re: [PATCH v2] net: dsa: fix filling routing table from OF description

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Apr 06 2015 - 17:32:26 EST


From: Pavel Nakonechny <pavel.nakonechny@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2015 00:46:21 +0300

> According to description in 'include/net/dsa.h', in cascade switches
> configurations where there are more than one interconnected devices,
> 'rtable' array in 'dsa_chip_data' structure is used to indicate which
> port on this switch should be used to send packets to that are destined
> for corresponding switch.
>
> However, dsa_of_setup_routing_table() fills 'rtable' with port numbers
> of the _target_ switch, but not current one.
>
> This commit removes redundant devicetree parsing and adds needed port
> number as a function argument. So dsa_of_setup_routing_table() now just
> looks for target switch number by parsing parent of 'link' device node.
>
> To remove possible misunderstandings with the way of determining target
> switch number, a corresponding comment was added to the source code and
> to the DSA device tree bindings documentation file.
>
> This was tested on a custom board with two Marvell 88E6095 switches with
> following corresponding routing tables: { -1, 10 } and { 8, -1 }.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Nakonechny <pavel.nakonechny@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.

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