Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: dsa: Platform data for dsa2.c

[Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>]

Le 29/06/2016 03:12, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 18:19:28 -0700
> 
>> 2016-06-27 18:05 GMT-07:00 Andrew Lunn <andrew@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.
> 
> I assume therefore that this series will be resubmitted with an
> accompanying example in-tree conversion.
> 

That is correct, although patches 1-4 could be applied immediately as
they are mostly preparatory steps to patches 5-6, I don't mind resending
this at a later time though (probably for the next net-next merge window
I assume).
-- 
Florian