From: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 18:05:45 +0100
> I think it is great a vendor is providing funding to get code > upstream. However, that code needs to conform with current kernel > architecture and design philosophy. > > We as a community also need to be consistent. We have recently push > back on Microchip with there LAN9352 who want to do something very > similar, introduce the MAC and a very dumb switch driver. They are now > looking at what it means to do a DSA driver. There is also talk of > writing a DSA driver for the ks8995 family. > > As David said recently, a year ago this probably would of been > accepted. But now, switches need to be DSA or switchdev. +1
