From: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 02:40:38 +0200
> There has been a long running effort to refractor DSA probing to make > the switches true linux devices. Here are a small collection of > patches moving in this direction. Most have been seen before. > > We take a little step forward by passing the dsa device point to the > driver, thus allowing it to perform resource allocations using the > normal mechanisms. This device structure will later be replaced by the > devices own device structure. > > Future patches will add a true driver probe function, so we rename the > current probe function, cleaning up the namespace. > > phys_port_mask continually confuses me, thinking it is about PHYs. But > it is actually about ports enabled to the outside world. So rename it to > enabled_port_mask. > > Lots more patches yet to follow, this is just doing some ground work. > > v2: > enabled_port_mask instread of user_port_masks > Added Tested-by's and Reviewed-by. Series applied, thanks.
