On 04/24/2018 05:27 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This patch series adds support for retrieving PHY statistics with DSA switches
> when the CPU port uses a PHY to PHY connection (as opposed to MAC to MAC).
> To get there a number of things are done:
> 
> - first we move the code dealing with PHY statistics outside of 
> net/core/ethtool.c
>   and create helper functions since the same code will be reused
> - then we allow network device drivers to provide an ethtool_get_phy_stats 
> callback
>   when the standard PHY library helpers are not suitable
> - we update the DSA functions dealing with ethtool operations to get passed a
>   stringset instead of assuming ETH_SS_STATS like they currently do
> - then we provide a set of standard helpers within DSA as a framework and add
>   the plumbing to allow retrieving the PHY statistics of the CPU port(s)
> - finally plug support for retrieving such PHY statistics with the b53 driver
> 
> Changes in v2:
> 
> - got actual testing when the DSA master network device has a PHY that
>   already provides statistics (thanks Nikita!)
> 
> - fixed the kbuild error reported when CONFIG_PHYLIB=n
> 
> - removed the checking of ops which is redundant and not needed

David, sorry looks like there will be a v3, the last patch introduces a
possible problem with bcm_sf2 which uses b53_common as a library, will
respin later.
-- 
Florian

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