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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-08-30 00:54:02 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-08-30 00:54:02 -0400 |
| commit | 6abdd5f5935fff978f950561f3c5175eb34dad73 (patch) | |
| tree | 6f3ed3a4f4af9e74436ec9355ebf8201357f1c40 /Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt | |
| parent | 0b498a52778368ff501557d68c7b50878ab1701e (diff) | |
| parent | e4e98c460ad38c78498622a164fd5ef09a2dc9cb (diff) | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
All three conflicts were cases of simple overlapping
changes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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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 ------------------------------------------------------------- |