net: dsa: microchip: add MIB counter reading support
Add background MIB counter reading support. Port MIB counters should only be read when there is link. Otherwise it is a waste of time as hardware never increases those counters. There are exceptions as some switches keep track of dropped counts no matter what. Signed-off-by: Tristram Ha <Tristram.Ha@microchip.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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