From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: f.fainelli@gmail.com
Cc: andrew@lunn.ch, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: dsa: Platform data for dsa2.c
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 06:12:01 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160629.061201.2186992042260603628.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGVrzcYzJ-NOZ-vTO_zRAVfhQ5qd=06dY9ybHfBwJHV6GtmK8A@mail.gmail.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-29 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-28 0:52 [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: dsa: Platform data for dsa2.c Florian Fainelli
2016-06-28 0:52 ` [PATCH net-next 1/6] net: dsa: Pass device pointer to dsa_register_switch Florian Fainelli
2016-06-28 0:52 ` [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: dsa: Make most functions take a dsa_port argument Florian Fainelli
2016-06-28 0:52 ` [PATCH net-next 3/6] net: dsa: Suffix function manipulating device_node with _dn Florian Fainelli
2016-06-28 0:52 ` [PATCH net-next 4/6] net: dsa: Move ports assignment closer to error checking Florian Fainelli
2016-06-28 0:52 ` [PATCH net-next 5/6] net: dsa: Export dev_to_net_device() Florian Fainelli
2016-06-28 0:52 ` [PATCH net-next 6/6] net: dsa: Add support for platform data Florian Fainelli
2016-06-28 1:05 ` [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: dsa: Platform data for dsa2.c Andrew Lunn
2016-06-28 1:19 ` Florian Fainelli
2016-06-28 14:17 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-06-29 10:12 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-07-04 21:40 ` Florian Fainelli
2016-07-04 22:06 ` David Miller
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