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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel@savoirfairelinux.com,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: Re: [RFC 07/20] net: dsa: list ports in switch\\
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:00:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <572241BB.1070304@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160427231537.GJ29024@lunn.ch>

On 27/04/16 16:15, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 06:30:04PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
>> List DSA port structures in their switch structure, so that drivers can
>> iterate on them to retrieve information such as their ports membership.
> 
> And this would be so much easier using a plan array.

Agreed, I do not see much value in doing this at the moment. Even if you
have unused ports in a switch, allocating an array is a small price to
pay compared to directly indexing by port number.

NAK from me unless there is a compelling reason for doing so.
-- 
Florian

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-28 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-27 22:29 [RFC 00/20] net: dsa: dsa_port structure and tree-wide ops Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 22:29 ` [RFC 01/20] net: dsa: introduce a dsa_port structure Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 23:07   ` Andrew Lunn
2016-04-27 22:29 ` [RFC 02/20] net: dsa: be consistent with NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 22:30 ` [RFC 03/20] net: dsa: pass dsa_port down to drivers bridge ops Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 23:12   ` Andrew Lunn
2016-04-27 22:30 ` [RFC 04/20] net: dsa: pass dsa_port down to drivers FDB ops Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 22:30 ` [RFC 05/20] net: dsa: pass dsa_port down to drivers VLAN ops Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 22:30 ` [RFC 06/20] net: dsa: move bridge device in dsa_port Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 22:30 ` [RFC 07/20] net: dsa: list ports in switch Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 23:15   ` [RFC 07/20] net: dsa: list ports in switch\\ Andrew Lunn
2016-04-28 17:00     ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2016-04-28 18:18       ` Vivien Didelot
2016-04-28 18:29         ` Florian Fainelli
2016-04-27 22:30 ` [RFC 08/20] net: dsa: bcm_sf2: use bridge device from dsa_port Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 22:30 ` [RFC 09/20] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: check HW vlan with dsa_port Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 22:30 ` [RFC 10/20] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: setup a dsa_port Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 22:30 ` [RFC 11/20] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: use bridge from dsa_port Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 22:30 ` [RFC 12/20] net: dsa: rename dst->ds to dst->switches Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 23:20   ` Andrew Lunn
2016-04-27 22:30 ` [RFC 13/20] net: dsa: list switches in tree Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 22:30 ` [RFC 14/20] net: dsa: add tree-wide bridge ops Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 22:30 ` [RFC 15/20] net: dsa: add tree-wide FDB ops Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 22:30 ` [RFC 16/20] net: dsa: add tree-wide VLAN ops Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 22:30 ` [RFC 17/20] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: factorize port bridge change Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 22:30 ` [RFC 18/20] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add flags to info Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 22:30 ` [RFC 19/20] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: conditionally init PVT Vivien Didelot
2016-04-27 22:30 ` [RFC 20/20] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: setup PVT on cross-chip ops Vivien Didelot

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