Re: [PATCH 4/4] RFC: net: dsa: realtek-smi: Add Realtek SMI driver

[Roman Yeryomin <roman@advem.lv>]

On 2017-11-09 20:08, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 11/09/2017 09:24 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>> The registers writing code is where? switchdev driver?
>>> All I care about is that all the switch specific code should be in 
>>> one
>>> place.
>> 
>> The switch specific code is in the switch specific driver.
>> 
>> Take a look under drivers/net/dsa for the switches which are currently
>> supported by DSA.
> 
> And Roman, if you are thinking about converting existing swconfig
> drivers from OpenWrt/LEDE into DSA, please do it! The conversion is
> reasonably simple even if the APIs do not exactly match. Quite a lot of
> swconfig driers in OpenWrt/LEDE are implemented as phy_device, and the
> conversion for that is to use a proper mdio_device (see
> drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_mdio.c for an example).

Yes, I'm thinking about that from time to time :)

> For the record, I tried submitting swconfig back in 2013, but this was
> rejected under the premise that it did not follow the simple paradigm
> that switch ports must be network devices. Also, swconfig is too
> permissive in that it allows switch drivers to come up with their own
> netlink attributes, whereas the desire is to standardize as much as
> possible on features, even if there is just one implementation for 
> that.

Yes, saw it back then...

> The downside of not using swconfig is that you need multiple tools,
> iproute2 namely in order to obtain the same type of configuration, but
> this is a small price to pay because DSA is upstream, and upstream
> usually wins, and it wins even more when people start contributing the
> things they see missing.

Fully agree here


Regards,
Roman