Re: [Enable Designware XGMAC VLAN Stripping Feature 2/2] net: stmmac: dwxgmac2: Add support for HW-accelerated VLAN Stripping

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Fri Jul 21 2023 - 12:27:02 EST


On 21/07/2023 17:30, Ng, Boon Khai wrote:
>> git
>>> a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
>>> b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
>>> index 23d53ea04b24..bd7f3326a44c 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
>>> @@ -543,6 +543,12 @@ stmmac_probe_config_dt(struct platform_device
>> *pdev, u8 *mac)
>>> plat->flags |= STMMAC_FLAG_TSO_EN;
>>> }
>>>
>>> + /* Rx VLAN HW Stripping */
>>> + if (of_property_read_bool(np, "snps,rx-vlan-offload")) {
>>> + dev_info(&pdev->dev, "RX VLAN HW Stripping\n");
>>
>> Why? Drop.
>>
>
> This is an dts option export to dts for user to choose whether or not they
> Want a Hardware stripping or a software stripping.
>
> May I know what is the reason to drop this?

Because we do not print simple confirmation of DT properties parsing.
It's usually useless and obvious from DT.

To be clear - we talk about dev_info.

Best regards,
Krzysztof