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| author | Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> | 2016-09-23 14:57:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> | 2016-09-23 14:57:16 +0200 |
| commit | 0565f49cfe937640c2347f6d7f40ad2f4e4f088b (patch) | |
| tree | 6067447df39c37946bc2de3ee004f45957bf123e /Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt | |
| parent | ccf1e9e1c0072088420aad42797986d6e74366b5 (diff) | |
| parent | 9395452b4aab7bc2475ef8935b4a4fb99d778d70 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'v4.8-rc6' into devel
Linux 4.8-rc6
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt index 9d05ed7f7da5..f20c884c048a 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 ------------------------------------------------------------- |
