| Message ID | 1472337260-7467-1-git-send-email-f.fainelli@gmail.com |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted, archived |
| Delegated to: | David Miller |
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On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 03:34:20PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote: > Since commit 83c0afaec7b7 ("net: dsa: Add new binding implementation"), > the shortcomings of the dsa platform device have been addressed, remove > that TODO item. > > Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Acked-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Thanks :-) Andrew
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 15:34:20 -0700 > Since commit 83c0afaec7b7 ("net: dsa: Add new binding implementation"), > the shortcomings of the dsa platform device have been addressed, remove > that TODO item. > > Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Applied.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt index 44ed453ccf66..a4e55c76d371 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt @@ -587,26 +587,6 @@ of DSA, would be the its port-based VLAN, used by the associated bridge device. TODO ==== -The platform device problem ---------------------------- -DSA is currently implemented as a platform device driver which is far from ideal -as was discussed in this thread: - -http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/329848 - -This basically prevents the device driver model to be properly used and applied, -and support non-MDIO, non-MMIO Ethernet connected switches. - -Another problem with the platform device driver approach is that it prevents the -use of a modular switch drivers build due to a circular dependency, illustrated -here: - -http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/345803 - -Attempts of reworking this has been done here: - -https://lwn.net/Articles/643149/ - Making SWITCHDEV and DSA converge towards an unified codebase -------------------------------------------------------------
Since commit 83c0afaec7b7 ("net: dsa: Add new binding implementation"), the shortcomings of the dsa platform device have been addressed, remove that TODO item. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> --- Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt | 20 -------------------- 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-)