On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 06:19:28PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 2016-06-27 18:05 GMT-07:00 Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch>:
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 05:52:37PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> This patch series adds support for platform data using the new code from
> >> net/dsa/dsa2.c. The motivation behind this is that we have a bit of in tree
> >> platforms (ar7, bcm47xx, x86, others) that could be benefiting from the new
> >> dsa_register_switch() API model but do not support Device Tree, nor is
> >> there a
> >> plan to bring Device Tree to these platforms (time vs. benefits).
> >
> > Hi Florian
> >
> > Please could you convert an in tree device to actually use this.
>
> Sure, I don't think there are going to be in tree users who need the
> dsa2_port_link information most of what we have is typically single
> chip, and so in that case, we can even re-use the existing
> dsa_platform_data.
O.K.
Less is better. When going through the old code for the earlier
re-structuring proposals, the code is not simple at times. I would
prefer not adding more complexity to dsa2 than really is needed.
Andrew
