[PATCH 5/5] powerpc: dts: remove label = "cpu" from DSA dt-binding

Vladimir Oltean olteanv at gmail.com
Thu Dec 8 00:13:30 AEDT 2022


On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 10:15:16PM +0300, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
> As Jonas (on CC) pointed out, I only see this being used in the swconfig b53
> driver which uses the label to identify the cpu port.
> 
> https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=blob;f=target/linux/generic/files/drivers/net/phy/b53/b53_common.c;h=87d731ec3e2a868dc8389f554b1dc9ab42c30be2;hb=HEAD#l1508
> 
> Maybe this got into DSA dt-bindings unchecked before it was decided to move
> forward with DSA instead of swconfig on Linux.

Yes, but swconfig is not DSA and their bindings are not compatible
anyway (swconfig lacks an ethernet = <&phandle> property that would
allow DSA to work). Still waiting for Pali to clarify what he had in mind.


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