Re: [PATCH net-next 26/30] net: dsa: mt7530: properly set MT7530_CPU_PORT

["Arınç ÜNAL" <arinc.unal@arinc9.com>]

On 26.05.2023 19:55, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 03:15:28PM +0300, arinc9.unal@gmail.com wrote:
>> From: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@arinc9.com>
>>
>> The MT7530_CPU_PORT bits represent the CPU port to trap frames to for the
>> MT7530 switch. There are two issues with the current way of setting these
>> bits. ID_MT7530 which is for the standalone MT7530 switch is not included.
> 
> It's best to say in the commit title what the change does, rather than
> the equivalent of "here, this way is proper!". Commit titles should be
> uniquely identifiable, and "properly set MT7530_CPU_PORT" doesn't say a
> lot about how proper it is. It's enough to imagine a future person
> finding something else that's perfectible and writing another "net: dsa:
> mt7530: properly set MT7530_CPU_PORT" commit. Try to be less definitive
> and at the same time more specific.
> 
> If there are 2 issues, there should be 2 changes with individual titles
> which each describes what was wrong and how that was changed.

Got it, this is a bug fix for future devicetrees so I will send a 
2-patch patch series to net. First one sets the MT7530_CPU_PORT bit to 
the active CPU port, the other adds the ID_MT7530 check.

> 
>> When multiple CPU ports are being used, the trapped frames won't be
>> received when the DSA conduit interface, which the frames are supposed to
>> be trapped to, is down because it's not affine to any user port. This
>> requires the DSA conduit interface to be manually set up for the trapped
>> frames to be received.
>>
>> Address these issues by implementing ds->ops->master_state_change() on this
>> subdriver and setting the MT7530_CPU_PORT bits there. Introduce the
>> active_cpu_ports field to store the information of active CPU ports.
>> Correct the macros, MT7530_CPU_PORT is bits 4 through 6 of the register.
>>
>> Any frames set for trapping to CPU port will be trapped to the numerically
>> smallest CPU port which is affine to the DSA conduit interface that is set
>> up. To make the understatement obvious, the frames won't necessarily be
>> trapped to the CPU port the user port, which these frames are received
>> from, is affine to. This operation is only there to make sure the trapped
>> frames always reach the CPU.
>>
>> Tested-by: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@arinc9.com>
>> Co-developed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
> 
> A single Suggested-by: is fine. As a rule of thumb, I would use Co-developed-by
> when I'm working with a patch formally pre-formatted or committed by somebody else,
> that I've changed in a significant manner. Since all I did was to comment with
> a suggestion of how to handle this, and with a code snippet written in the email
> client to a patch of yours, I don't believe that's necessary here.

Will do, thanks.

Arınç