Hi,

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 09:38:16AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 6/27/19 3:15 AM, Benedikt Spranger wrote:
> > Document the different needs of documentation for the b53 driver.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Benedikt Spranger <b.spran...@linutronix.de>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/networking/dsa/b53.rst | 300 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 300 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/networking/dsa/b53.rst
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/b53.rst 
> > b/Documentation/networking/dsa/b53.rst
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..5838cf6230da
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/b53.rst
> > @@ -0,0 +1,300 @@
> > +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > +
> > +==========================================
> > +Broadcom RoboSwitch Ethernet switch driver
> > +==========================================
> > +
> > +The Broadcom RoboSwitch Ethernet switch family is used in quite a range of
> > +xDSL router, cable modems and other multimedia devices.
> > +
> > +The actual implementation supports the devices BCM5325E, BCM5365, BCM539x,
> > +BCM53115 and BCM53125 as well as BCM63XX.
> > +
> > +Implementation details
> > +======================
> > +
> > +The driver is located in ``drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c`` and is implemented 
> > as a
> > +DSA driver; see ``Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst`` for details on the
> > +subsystemand what it provides.
>
> The driver is under drivers/net/dsa/b53/
>
> s/ethernet/Ethernet/ for your global submission.
>
> What you are describing is not entirely specific to the B53 driver
> (maybe with the exception of having a VLAN tag on the DSA master network
> device, since B53 puts the CPU port tagged in all VLANs by default), and
> therefore the entire document should be written with the general DSA
> devices in mind, and eventually pointing out where B53 differs in a
> separate document.

That's true. It makes sense to split the documentation into a generic
and the b53 specific part.

Thanks a lot, Bene, for doing this. It's really helpful.

Thanks,
Kurt

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