Hi! > There will be 5 drivers to support these devices: > > ksz9477.c - KSZ9893/KSZ9897/KSZ9567/KSZ9566/KSZ9477 > ksz8795.c - KSZ8795/KSZ8795/KSZ8765 > ksz8895.c - KSZ8895/KSZ8864
Could we see the 8895 driver, please?
> Out of topic I have a question to ask the community regarding the DSA
> port creation:
>
> Port 1 can be specified using the reg parameter specifying 0; port 2, 1;
> and so on. The KSZ8794 is a variant of KSZ8795 with port 4 disabled.
> So
> lan1 = 0, lan2 = 1, lan3 = 2, cpu = 4.
> But our company Marketing does not want to promote that fact but treat
> KSZ8794 as a distinct product.
> So
> lan1 = 0, lan2 = 1, lan3 = 2, cpu = 3.
> Is this okay to hide this information inside the driver? This is manageable
> for KSZ8794 but for KSZ8864 the first port is disabled:
> lan1 = 1, lan2 = 2, lan3 = 3, cpu = 4.
>
> I am not sure whether DSA has or will have a way to display the port
> mapping to regular users.
Kernel is not a place to play marketing games, and people reading the
kernel sources are not targets of your marketing department.
Please let us just see the underlying hardware, as is.
Pavel
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