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[RFC PATCH net-next 03/12] Documentation: networking: dsa: remove static port count from limitations

From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-02-21 21:35:29
Subsystem: documentation, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>

After Vivien's series from 2019 containing commits 27d4d19d7c82 ("net:
dsa: remove limitation of switch index value") and ab8ccae122a4 ("net:
dsa: add ports list in the switch fabric"), this is basically no longer
true.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
index fc98b5774fb6..cb59df6e80f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst
@@ -360,14 +360,6 @@ 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
 -------------------------------
 
@@ -697,7 +689,6 @@ 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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