Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: bcm_sf2: fix crossbar port bitwidth logic

[Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>]

On 10/3/24 14:23, Sam Edwards wrote:
> The SF2 crossbar register is a packed bitfield, giving the index of the
> external port selected for each of the internal ports. On BCM4908 (the
> only currently-supported switch family with a crossbar), there are 2
> internal ports and 3 external ports, so there are 2 bits per internal
> port.
> 
> The driver currently conflates the "bits per port" and "number of ports"
> concepts, lumping both into the `num_crossbar_int_ports` field. Since it
> is currently only possible for either of these counts to have a value of
> 2, there is no behavioral error resulting from this situation for now.
> 
> Make the code more readable (and support the future possibility of
> larger crossbars) by adding a `num_crossbar_ext_bits` field to represent
> the "bits per port" count and relying on this where appropriate instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sam Edwards <CFSworks@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
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Florian