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| author | Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> | 2016-08-27 15:34:20 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-08-28 23:43:06 -0400 |
| commit | 7d13eca09ed5e477f6ecfd97a35058762228b5e4 (patch) | |
| tree | c9628325726ff6236e0e39e8911350dcf396dd83 | |
| parent | e4d986a878e0eb9e46f851a564189f8204cc677f (diff) | |
| download | linux-7d13eca09ed5e477f6ecfd97a35058762228b5e4.tar.bz2 | |
Documentation: networking: dsa: Remove platform device TODO
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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 20 deletions
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 ------------------------------------------------------------- |