From: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 20:49:50 -0700
> This patch series addresses the overloading of a DSA CPU/management > interface's netdev_ops for the purpose of providing useful information > from the switch side. > > Up until now we had duplicated the existing netdev_ops structure and > added specific function pointers to return information of interest. Here > we have a more controlled way of doing this by involving the specific > netdev_ops function pointers that we want to be patched, which is easier > for auditing code in the future. As a byproduct we can now maintain > netdev_ops pointer comparisons which would be failing before (no known > in tree problems because of that though). > > Let me know if this approach looks reasonable to you and we might do the > same with our ethtool_ops overloading as well. This looks good to me, series applied. And yes, doing something similar for ethtool_ops is probably a good idea too.
