From: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 23:27:18 +0200
> The complete set of patches for the reworked DSA probing is too big to > post as once. These subset contains some enablers which are easy to > review. > > Eventually, the Marvell driver will instantiate its own internal MDIO > bus, rather than have the framework do it, thus allows devices on the > bus to be listed in the device tree. Initialize the main mutex as soon > as it is created, to avoid lifetime issues with the mdio bus. > > A previous patch renamed all the DSA probe functions to make room for > a true device probe. However the recent merging of all the Marvell > switch drivers resulted in mv88e6xxx going back to the old probe > name. Rename it again, so we can have a driver probe function. > > Add minimum support for the Marvell switch driver to probe as an MDIO > device, as well as an DSA driver. Later patches will then register > this device with the new DSA core framework. > > Move the GPIO reset code out of the DSA code. Different drivers may > need different reset mechanisms, e.g. via a reset controller for > memory mapped devices. Don't clutter up the core with this. Let each > driver implement what it needs. > > master_dev is no longer needed in the switch drivers, since they have > access to a device pointer from the probe function. Remove it. > > Let the switch parse the eeprom length from its one device tree > node. This is required with the new binding when the central DSA > platform device no longer exists. Series applied, thanks Andrew.
