Commit f23f1404 authored by Vladimir Oltean's avatar Vladimir Oltean Committed by David S. Miller

Documentation: networking: dsa: remove static port count from limitations

After Vivien's series from 2019 containing commits 27d4d19d ("net:
dsa: remove limitation of switch index value") and ab8ccae1 ("net:
dsa: add ports list in the switch fabric"), this is basically no longer
true.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 7714ee15
......@@ -382,14 +382,6 @@ DSA data structures are defined in ``include/net/dsa.h`` as well as
Design limitations
==================
Limits on the number of devices and ports
-----------------------------------------
DSA currently limits the number of maximum switches within a tree to 4
(``DSA_MAX_SWITCHES``), and the number of ports per switch to 12 (``DSA_MAX_PORTS``).
These limits could be extended to support larger configurations would this need
arise.
Lack of CPU/DSA network devices
-------------------------------
......@@ -719,7 +711,6 @@ two subsystems and get the best of both worlds.
Other hanging fruits
--------------------
- making the number of ports fully dynamic and not dependent on ``DSA_MAX_PORTS``
- allowing more than one CPU/management interface:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/365657
- porting more drivers from other vendors:
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