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David S. Miller 11fe883936 Merge branch 'master' of 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 573201f36f
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>
2010-07-20 18:25:24 -07:00
Richard Cochran 28b041139e net: preserve ifreq parameter when calling generic phy_mii_ioctl().
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>
2010-07-18 19:15:25 -07:00
David S. Miller 336a283b9c dsa: Fix Kconfig dependencies.
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>
2010-07-12 20:03:42 -07:00
David S. Miller 871039f02f Merge branch 'master' of 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
2010-04-11 14:53:53 -07:00
Jiri Pirko a748ee2426 net: move address list functions to a separate file
+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>
2010-04-03 14:22:11 -07:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking 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>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Stephen Hemminger 6fef4c0c8e netdev: convert pseudo-devices to netdev_tx_t
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 01:13:07 -07:00
Stephane Contri 1ded3f59f3 dsa: fix 88e6xxx statistics counter snapshotting
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>
2009-07-05 18:03:35 -07:00
Jiri Pirko ccffad25b5 net: convert unicast addr list
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>
2009-05-29 22:12:32 -07:00
Lennert Buytenhek e84665c9cb dsa: add switch chip cascading support
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>
2009-03-21 19:06:54 -07:00
Lennert Buytenhek 076d3e10a5 dsa: add support for the Marvell 88E6095/6095F switch chips
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>
2009-03-21 19:06:54 -07:00
Lennert Buytenhek c084080151 dsa: set ->iflink on slave interfaces to the ifindex of the parent
..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>
2009-03-21 19:06:53 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 7546dd97d2 net: convert usage of packet_type to read_mostly
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>
2009-03-10 05:22:43 -07:00
Harvey Harrison 09640e6365 net: replace uses of __constant_{endian}
Base versions handle constant folding now.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-01 00:45:17 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger d442ad4ab1 dsa: convert to net_device_ops (v2)
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>
2009-01-06 16:45:26 -08:00
Roel Kluin 5eaa65b240 net: Make static
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>
2008-12-10 15:18:31 -08:00
Ingo Molnar d3f644da90 dsa: fix warning in net/dsa/mv88e6060.c
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>
2008-11-25 16:51:13 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 2a9e79782d dsa: fix warning in net/dsa/mv88e6xxx.c
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>
2008-11-25 16:50:49 -08:00
David S. Miller 7e452baf6b Merge branch 'master' of 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
2008-11-11 15:43:02 -08:00
Lennert Buytenhek df02c6ff2e dsa: fix master interface allmulti/promisc handling
Before commit b6c40d68ff ("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>
2008-11-10 21:53:12 -08:00
Lennert Buytenhek 14ee6742b1 dsa: fix skb->pkt_type when mac address of slave interface differs
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>
2008-11-10 21:52:42 -08:00
Kay Sievers fb28ad3590 net: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
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>
2008-11-10 13:55:14 -08:00
David S. Miller d2ad3ca88d net/: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores.
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>
2008-11-03 22:01:07 -08:00
Heiko Carstens 510149e319 dsa: fix compile bug on s390
git commit 45cec1bac0
"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>
2008-10-13 18:58:48 -07:00
David S. Miller 45cec1bac0 dsa: Need to select PHYLIB.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-08 17:33:01 -07:00
Lennert Buytenhek 2e16a77e1e dsa: add support for the Marvell 88E6060 switch chip
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>
2008-10-08 17:24:22 -07:00
Lennert Buytenhek 396138f03f dsa: add support for Trailer tagging format
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>
2008-10-08 17:24:16 -07:00
Lennert Buytenhek 2e5f032095 dsa: add support for the Marvell 88E6131 switch chip
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>
2008-10-08 17:24:09 -07:00
Lennert Buytenhek cf85d08fdf dsa: add support for original DSA tagging format
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>
2008-10-08 17:19:56 -07:00
Lennert Buytenhek 91da11f870 net: Distributed Switch Architecture protocol support
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>
2008-10-08 17:15:19 -07:00