Re: dsa: using multi-gbps speeds on CPU port

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>]

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 09:09:26AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Vladimir mentioned a few weeks ago that he is considering adding support
> for PHYLIB and PHYLINK to run without a net_device instance, you two
> should probably coordinate with each other and make sure both of your
> requirements (which are likely the same) get addressed.

I don't see how that's sane unless we just replace the "netdevice" in
there with an opaque "void *" and lose the typechecking.

That then means we'd need to eradicate all the messages therein, since
we can't use netdev_*() functions to print.

Then there's the patches I still have, that were rejected, and have had
no progress to get SFP working on 88x3310 - I'm just not bothering to
push them due to the rejection, and the lack of any ideas how to
approach this problem.  So we have the Macchiatobin which has now been
around for quite some time with SFP+ slots that are not particularly
functional with mainline kernels (but hey, I don't care, because they
work for me, because I have the patches that work!)

You all know where that is, I've tried pointing it out several times...

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