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2010-08-11phylib: available for any speed ethernetRandy Dunlap1-1/+1
Several gigabit network drivers (SB1250_MAC, TIGON3, FSL, GIANFAR, UCC_GETH, MV643XX_ETH, XILINX_LL_TEMAC, S6GMAC, STMMAC_ETH, PASEMI_MAC, and OCTEON_ETHERNET) select PHYLIB. These drivers are not under NET_ETHERNET (10/100 mbit), so this warning is generated (long, irrelevant parts are omitted): warning: (NET_DSA && NET && EXPERIMENTAL && NET_ETHERNET && !S390 || ... || SB1250_MAC && NETDEVICES && NETDEV_1000 && SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC || TIGON3 && NETDEVICES && NETDEV_1000 && PCI || FSL_PQ_MDIO && NETDEVICES && NETDEV_1000 && FSL_SOC || GIANFAR && NETDEVICES && NETDEV_1000 && FSL_SOC || UCC_GETH && NETDEVICES && NETDEV_1000 && QUICC_ENGINE || MV643XX_ETH && NETDEVICES && NETDEV_1000 && (MV64X60 || PPC32 || PLAT_ORION) || XILINX_LL_TEMAC && NETDEVICES && NETDEV_1000 && (PPC || MICROBLAZE) || S6GMAC && NETDEVICES && NETDEV_1000 && XTENSA_VARIANT_S6000 || STMMAC_ETH && NETDEV_1000 && NETDEVICES && CPU_SUBTYPE_ST40 || PASEMI_MAC && NETDEVICES && NETDEV_10000 && PPC_PASEMI && PCI || OCTEON_ETHERNET && STAGING && !STAGING_EXCLUDE_BUILD && CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON) selects PHYLIB which has unmet direct dependencies (!S390 && NET_ETHERNET) PHYLIB is used by non-10/100 mbit ethernet drivers, so change the dependencies to be NETDEVICES instead of NET_ETHERNET. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-20Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller1-1/+1
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/vhost/net.c net/bridge/br_device.c Fix merge conflict in drivers/vhost/net.c with guidance from Stephen Rothwell. Revert the effects of net-2.6 commit 573201f36fd9c7c6d5218cdcd9948cee700b277d since net-next-2.6 has fixes that make bridge netpoll work properly thus we don't need it disabled. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-18net: preserve ifreq parameter when calling generic phy_mii_ioctl().Richard Cochran1-2/+1
The phy_mii_ioctl() function unnecessarily throws away the original ifreq. We need access to the ifreq in order to support PHYs that can perform hardware time stamping. Two maverick drivers filter the ioctl commands passed to phy_mii_ioctl(). This is unnecessary since phylib will check the command in any case. Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-12dsa: Fix Kconfig dependencies.David S. Miller1-1/+1
Based upon a report by Randy Dunlap. DSA needs PHYLIB, but PHYLIB needs NET_ETHERNET. So, in order to select PHYLIB we have to make DSA depend upon NET_ETHERNET. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-04-11Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller4-0/+4
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c net/core/ethtool.c net/mac80211/scan.c
2010-04-03net: move address list functions to a separate fileJiri Pirko1-7/+7
+little renaming of unicast functions to be smooth with multicast ones Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo4-0/+4
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2009-09-01netdev: convert pseudo-devices to netdev_tx_tStephen Hemminger4-6/+6
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-05dsa: fix 88e6xxx statistics counter snapshottingStephane Contri1-1/+1
The bit that tells us whether a statistics counter snapshot operation has completed is located in the GLOBAL register block, not in the GLOBAL2 register block, so fix up mv88e6xxx_stats_wait() to poll the right register address. Signed-off-by: Stephane Contri <Stephane.Contri@grassvalley.com> Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-29net: convert unicast addr listJiri Pirko1-5/+5
This patch converts unicast address list to standard list_head using previously introduced struct netdev_hw_addr. It also relaxes the locking. Original spinlock (still used for multicast addresses) is not needed and is no longer used for a protection of this list. All reading and writing takes place under rtnl (with no changes). I also removed a possibility to specify the length of the address while adding or deleting unicast address. It's always dev->addr_len. The convertion touched especially e1000 and ixgbe codes when the change is not so trivial. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> drivers/net/bnx2.c | 13 +-- drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c | 24 +++-- drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c | 14 ++-- drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h | 4 +- drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_type.h | 4 +- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 11 +- drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c | 11 +- drivers/net/niu.c | 7 +- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 7 +- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 6 +- drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c | 16 ++-- include/linux/netdevice.h | 18 ++-- net/8021q/vlan.c | 4 +- net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 10 +- net/core/dev.c | 195 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- net/dsa/slave.c | 10 +- net/packet/af_packet.c | 4 +- 18 files changed, 227 insertions(+), 137 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-21dsa: add switch chip cascading supportLennert Buytenhek9-188/+363
The initial version of the DSA driver only supported a single switch chip per network interface, while DSA-capable switch chips can be interconnected to form a tree of switch chips. This patch adds support for multiple switch chips on a network interface. An example topology for a 16-port device with an embedded CPU is as follows: +-----+ +--------+ +--------+ | |eth0 10| switch |9 10| switch | | CPU +----------+ +-------+ | | | | chip 0 | | chip 1 | +-----+ +---++---+ +---++---+ || || || || ||1000baseT ||1000baseT ||ports 1-8 ||ports 9-16 This requires a couple of interdependent changes in the DSA layer: - The dsa platform driver data needs to be extended: there is still only one netdevice per DSA driver instance (eth0 in the example above), but each of the switch chips in the tree needs its own mii_bus device pointer, MII management bus address, and port name array. (include/net/dsa.h) The existing in-tree dsa users need some small changes to deal with this. (arch/arm) - The DSA and Ethertype DSA tagging modules need to be extended to use the DSA device ID field on receive and demultiplex the packet accordingly, and fill in the DSA device ID field on transmit according to which switch chip the packet is heading to. (net/dsa/tag_{dsa,edsa}.c) - The concept of "CPU port", which is the switch chip port that the CPU is connected to (port 10 on switch chip 0 in the example), needs to be extended with the concept of "upstream port", which is the port on the switch chip that will bring us one hop closer to the CPU (port 10 for both switch chips in the example above). - The dsa platform data needs to specify which ports on which switch chips are links to other switch chips, so that we can enable DSA tagging mode on them. (For inter-switch links, we always use non-EtherType DSA tagging, since it has lower overhead. The CPU link uses dsa or edsa tagging depending on what the 'root' switch chip supports.) This is done by specifying "dsa" for the given port in the port array. - The dsa platform data needs to be extended with information on via which port to reach any given switch chip from any given switch chip. This info is specified via the per-switch chip data struct ->rtable[] array, which gives the nexthop ports for each of the other switches in the tree. For the example topology above, the dsa platform data would look something like this: static struct dsa_chip_data sw[2] = { { .mii_bus = &foo, .sw_addr = 1, .port_names[0] = "p1", .port_names[1] = "p2", .port_names[2] = "p3", .port_names[3] = "p4", .port_names[4] = "p5", .port_names[5] = "p6", .port_names[6] = "p7", .port_names[7] = "p8", .port_names[9] = "dsa", .port_names[10] = "cpu", .rtable = (s8 []){ -1, 9, }, }, { .mii_bus = &foo, .sw_addr = 2, .port_names[0] = "p9", .port_names[1] = "p10", .port_names[2] = "p11", .port_names[3] = "p12", .port_names[4] = "p13", .port_names[5] = "p14", .port_names[6] = "p15", .port_names[7] = "p16", .port_names[10] = "dsa", .rtable = (s8 []){ 10, -1, }, }, }, static struct dsa_platform_data pd = { .netdev = &foo, .nr_switches = 2, .sw = sw, }; Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Tested-by: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-21dsa: add support for the Marvell 88E6095/6095F switch chipsLennert Buytenhek2-11/+17
Add support for the Marvell 88E6095/6095F switch chips. These chips are similar to the 88e6131, so we can add the support to mv88e6131.c easily. Thanks to Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> and Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@diku.dk> for testing various patches. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Tested-by: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-21dsa: set ->iflink on slave interfaces to the ifindex of the parentLennert Buytenhek1-0/+13
..so that we can parse the DSA topology from 'ip link' output: 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 4: lan1@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue 5: lan2@eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue 6: lan3@eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue 7: lan4@eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10net: convert usage of packet_type to read_mostlyStephen Hemminger3-3/+3
Protocols that use packet_type can be __read_mostly section for better locality. Elminate any unnecessary initializations of NULL. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-01net: replace uses of __constant_{endian}Harvey Harrison5-5/+5
Base versions handle constant folding now. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-06dsa: convert to net_device_ops (v2)Stephen Hemminger1-10/+41
Convert this driver to use net_device_ops Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-10net: Make staticRoel Kluin3-6/+6
Sparse asked whether these could be static. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25dsa: fix warning in net/dsa/mv88e6060.cIngo Molnar1-1/+1
this warning: net/dsa/mv88e6060.c: In function ‘mv88e6060_poll_link’: net/dsa/mv88e6060.c:225: warning: ‘port_status’ may be used uninitialized in this function triggers because GCC does not recognize the (correct) error flow between 'link' and 'port_status'. Annotate it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25dsa: fix warning in net/dsa/mv88e6xxx.cIngo Molnar1-1/+1
this warning: net/dsa/mv88e6xxx.c: In function ‘mv88e6xxx_poll_link’: net/dsa/mv88e6xxx.c:361: warning: ‘port_status’ may be used uninitialized in this function triggers because GCC does not recognize the (correct) error flow between 'link' and 'port_status'. Annotate it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-11Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller4-2/+73
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c drivers/net/sfc/ethtool.c net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c
2008-11-10dsa: fix master interface allmulti/promisc handlingLennert Buytenhek1-2/+70
Before commit b6c40d68ff6498b7f63ddf97cf0aa818d748dee7 ("net: only invoke dev->change_rx_flags when device is UP"), the dsa driver could sort-of get away with only fiddling with the master interface's allmulti/promisc counts in ->change_rx_flags() and not touching them in ->open() or ->stop(). After this commit (note that it was merged almost simultaneously with the dsa patches, which is why this wasn't caught initially), the breakage that was already there became more apparent. Since it makes no sense to keep the master interface's allmulti or promisc count pinned for a slave interface that is down, copy the vlan driver's sync logic (which does exactly what we want) over to dsa to fix this. Bug report from Dirk Teurlings <dirk@upexia.nl> and Peter van Valderen <linux@ddcrew.com>. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Tested-by: Dirk Teurlings <dirk@upexia.nl> Tested-by: Peter van Valderen <linux@ddcrew.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10dsa: fix skb->pkt_type when mac address of slave interface differsLennert Buytenhek3-0/+3
When a dsa slave interface has a mac address that differs from that of the master interface, eth_type_trans() won't explicitly set skb->pkt_type back to PACKET_HOST -- we need to do this ourselves before calling eth_type_trans(). Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10net: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()Kay Sievers1-1/+1
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03net/: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores.David S. Miller3-3/+0
The generic packet receive code takes care of setting netdev->last_rx when necessary, for the sake of the bonding ARP monitor. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13dsa: fix compile bug on s390Heiko Carstens1-1/+1
git commit 45cec1bac0719c904bb5f4405c2937f7e715888c "dsa: Need to select PHYLIB." causes this build bug on s390: drivers/built-in.o: In function `phy_stop_interrupts': /home/heicarst/linux-2.6/drivers/net/phy/phy.c:631: undefined reference to `free_irq' /home/heicarst/linux-2.6/drivers/net/phy/phy.c:646: undefined reference to `enable_irq' drivers/built-in.o: In function `phy_start_interrupts': /home/heicarst/linux-2.6/drivers/net/phy/phy.c:601: undefined reference to `request_irq' drivers/built-in.o: In function `phy_interrupt': /home/heicarst/linux-2.6/drivers/net/phy/phy.c:528: undefined reference to `disable_irq_nosync' drivers/built-in.o: In function `phy_change': /home/heicarst/linux-2.6/drivers/net/phy/phy.c:674: undefined reference to `enable_irq' /home/heicarst/linux-2.6/drivers/net/phy/phy.c:692: undefined reference to `disable_irq' PHYLIB has alread a depend on !S390, however select PHYLIB at DSA overrides that unfortunately. So add a depend on !S390 to DSA as well. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-08dsa: Need to select PHYLIB.David S. Miller1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-08dsa: add support for the Marvell 88E6060 switch chipLennert Buytenhek3-0/+295
Add support for the Marvell 88E6060 switch chip. This chip only supports the Header and Trailer tagging formats, and we use it in Trailer mode since that mode is slightly easier to handle than Header mode. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Tested-by: Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@gmail.com> Tested-by: Tim Ellis <tim.ellis@mac.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-08dsa: add support for Trailer tagging formatLennert Buytenhek6-0/+150
This adds support for the Trailer switch tagging format. This is another tagging that doesn't explicitly mark tagged packets with a distinct ethertype, so that we need to add a similar hack in the receive path as for the Original DSA tagging format. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Tested-by: Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@gmail.com> Tested-by: Tim Ellis <tim.ellis@mac.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-08dsa: add support for the Marvell 88E6131 switch chipLennert Buytenhek5-0/+555
Add support for the Marvell 88E6131 switch chip. This chip only supports the original (ethertype-less) DSA tagging format. On the 88E6131, there is a PHY Polling Unit (PPU) which has exclusive access to each of the PHYs's MII management registers. If we want to talk to the PHYs from software, we have to disable the PPU and wait for it to complete its current transaction before we can do so, and we need to re-enable the PPU afterwards to make sure that the switch will notice changes in link state and speed on the individual ports as they occur. Since disabling the PPU is rather slow, and since MII management accesses are typically done in bursts, this patch keeps the PPU disabled for 10ms after a software access completes. This makes handling the PPU slightly more complex, but speeds up something like running ethtool on one of the switch slave interfaces from ~300ms to ~30ms on typical hardware. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com> Tested-by: Peter van Valderen <linux@ddcrew.com> Tested-by: Dirk Teurlings <dirk@upexia.nl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-08dsa: add support for original DSA tagging formatLennert Buytenhek7-7/+234
Most of the DSA switches currently in the field do not support the Ethertype DSA tagging format that one of the previous patches added support for, but only the original DSA tagging format. The original DSA tagging format carries the same information as the Ethertype DSA tagging format, but with the difference that it does not have an ethertype field. In other words, when receiving a packet that is tagged with an original DSA tag, there is no way of telling in eth_type_trans() that this packet is in fact a DSA-tagged packet. This patch adds a hook into eth_type_trans() which is only compiled in if support for a switch chip that doesn't support Ethertype DSA is selected, and which checks whether there is a DSA switch driver instance attached to this network device which uses the old tag format. If so, it sets the protocol field to ETH_P_DSA without looking at the packet, so that the packet ends up in the right place. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com> Tested-by: Peter van Valderen <linux@ddcrew.com> Tested-by: Dirk Teurlings <dirk@upexia.nl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-08net: Distributed Switch Architecture protocol supportLennert Buytenhek9-0/+1891
Distributed Switch Architecture is a protocol for managing hardware switch chips. It consists of a set of MII management registers and commands to configure the switch, and an ethernet header format to signal which of the ports of the switch a packet was received from or is intended to be sent to. The switches that this driver supports are typically embedded in access points and routers, and a typical setup with a DSA switch looks something like this: +-----------+ +-----------+ | | RGMII | | | +-------+ +------ 1000baseT MDI ("WAN") | | | 6-port +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN1") | CPU | | ethernet +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN2") | |MIImgmt| switch +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN3") | +-------+ w/5 PHYs +------ 1000baseT MDI ("LAN4") | | | | +-----------+ +-----------+ The switch driver presents each port on the switch as a separate network interface to Linux, polls the switch to maintain software link state of those ports, forwards MII management interface accesses to those network interfaces (e.g. as done by ethtool) to the switch, and exposes the switch's hardware statistics counters via the appropriate Linux kernel interfaces. This initial patch supports the MII management interface register layout of the Marvell 88E6123, 88E6161 and 88E6165 switch chips, and supports the "Ethertype DSA" packet tagging format. (There is no officially registered ethertype for the Ethertype DSA packet format, so we just grab a random one. The ethertype to use is programmed into the switch, and the switch driver uses the value of ETH_P_EDSA for this, so this define can be changed at any time in the future if the one we chose is allocated to another protocol or if Ethertype DSA gets its own officially registered ethertype, and everything will continue to work.) Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com> Tested-by: Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@gmail.com> Tested-by: Tim Ellis <tim.ellis@mac.com> Tested-by: Peter van Valderen <linux@ddcrew.com> Tested-by: Dirk Teurlings <dirk@upexia.nl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>