From: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.stras...@ti.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 23:27:58 +0300
> As existing, as newly introduced CPSW ALE versions have differences in > supported features and ALE table formats. Especially it's actual for the > recent AM65x/J721E/J7200 and future AM64x SoCs, which supports more > features like: auto-aging, classifiers, Link aggregation, additional HW > filtering, etc. > > The existing ALE configuration interface is not practical in terms of > adding new features and requires consumers to program a lot static > parameters. And any attempt to add new features will case endless adding > and maintaining different combination of flags and options. Because CPSW > ALE configuration is static and fixed for SoC (or set of SoC), It is > reasonable to add support for static ALE configurations inside ALE module. > > This series introduces static ALE configuration table for different ALE > variants and provides option for consumers to select required ALE > configuration by providing ALE const char *dev_id identifier (Patch 2). > And all existing driver have been switched to use new approach (Patches 3-6). > > After this ALE HW auto-ageing feature can be enabled for AM65x CPSW ALE > variant (Patch 7). > > Finally, Patches 8-9 introduces tables to describe the ALE VLAN entries > fields as the ALE VLAN entries are too much differ between different TI > CPSW ALE versions. So, handling them using flags, defines and get/set > functions are became over-complicated. ... Series applied, thank you.
