Le 08/09/15 10:35, Andrew Lunn a écrit :
>>> The optional mii-bus properties i'm adding should be used in
>>> preference to this global one, for this switch. Keeping the names the
>>> same makes sense. But i did drop the dsa prefix to indicate it is
>>> local, not global scope,
>>
>> Dropping a vendor prefix usually means that it's (standardized)
>> common property name. I don't know where you took the "local" scope
>> thing...
>
> DSA has at least three levels of hierarchy. The following is the
> example from the binding documentation. There is a 'global' scope
> dsa,mii-bus = <&mii_bus0> in the top level, which is mandatory. This
> patch allows optional 'local' scope mii bus to be specified at an
> individual switch level. The 'local' value, if present, will override
> the 'global' value.
>
> Maybe more properties should use the dsa prefix? But dsa is not a
> vendor prefix, it just refers to "Distributed Switch Architecture",
> the scheme for accessing a number of Ethernet switches connected
> together in a cluster. But as the binding has grown, this prefix has
> not been used with new properties.
Maybe it was not very smart to use the "dsa," prefixing initially, but I
agree with Andrew's naming of things here, we are already local to the
switch tree so dropping the prefix sounds reasonable.
>
> Andrew
>
> dsa@0 {
> compatible = "marvell,dsa";
> #address-cells = <2>;
> #size-cells = <0>;
>
> interrupts = <10>;
> dsa,ethernet = <ðernet0>;
> dsa,mii-bus = <&mii_bus0>;
>
> switch@0 {
> #address-cells = <1>;
> #size-cells = <0>;
> reg = <16 0>; /* MDIO address 16, switch 0 in tree
> */
>
> port@0 {
> reg = <0>;
> label = "lan1";
> phy-handle = <&phy0>;
> };
>
> port@1 {
> reg = <1>;
> label = "lan2";
> };
>
> port@5 {
> reg = <5>;
> label = "cpu";
> };
>
> switch0port6: port@6 {
> reg = <6>;
> label = "dsa";
> link = <&switch1port0
> &switch2port0>;
> };
> };
>
> switch@1 {
> #address-cells = <1>;
> #size-cells = <0>;
> reg = <17 1>; /* MDIO address 17, switch 1 in tree
> */
> mii-bus = <&mii_bus1>;
>
> switch1port0: port@0 {
> reg = <0>;
> label = "dsa";
> link = <&switch0port6>;
> };
> switch1port1: port@1 {
> reg = <1>;
> label = "dsa";
> link = <&switch2port1>;
> };
> };
>
> switch@2 {
> #address-cells = <1>;
> #size-cells = <0>;
> reg = <18 2>; /* MDIO address 18, switch 2 in tree
> */
> mii-bus = <&mii_bus1>;
>
> switch2port0: port@0 {
> reg = <0>;
> label = "dsa";
> link = <&switch1port1
> &switch0port6>;
> };
> };
> };
>
--
Florian
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