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author | Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> | 2016-08-27 18:34:20 -0400 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-08-28 23:43:06 -0400 |
commit | 7d13eca09ed5e477f6ecfd97a35058762228b5e4 (patch) | |
tree | c9628325726ff6236e0e39e8911350dcf396dd83 | |
parent | e4d986a878e0eb9e46f851a564189f8204cc677f (diff) |
Documentation: networking: dsa: Remove platform device TODO
Since commit 83c0afaec7b7 ("net: dsa: Add new binding implementation"),
the shortcomings of the dsa platform device have been addressed, remove
that TODO item.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt index 9d05ed7f7da5..f20c884c048a 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt | |||
@@ -587,26 +587,6 @@ of DSA, would be the its port-based VLAN, used by the associated bridge device. | |||
587 | TODO | 587 | TODO |
588 | ==== | 588 | ==== |
589 | 589 | ||
590 | The platform device problem | ||
591 | --------------------------- | ||
592 | DSA is currently implemented as a platform device driver which is far from ideal | ||
593 | as was discussed in this thread: | ||
594 | |||
595 | http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/329848 | ||
596 | |||
597 | This basically prevents the device driver model to be properly used and applied, | ||
598 | and support non-MDIO, non-MMIO Ethernet connected switches. | ||
599 | |||
600 | Another problem with the platform device driver approach is that it prevents the | ||
601 | use of a modular switch drivers build due to a circular dependency, illustrated | ||
602 | here: | ||
603 | |||
604 | http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/345803 | ||
605 | |||
606 | Attempts of reworking this has been done here: | ||
607 | |||
608 | https://lwn.net/Articles/643149/ | ||
609 | |||
610 | Making SWITCHDEV and DSA converge towards an unified codebase | 590 | Making SWITCHDEV and DSA converge towards an unified codebase |
611 | ------------------------------------------------------------- | 591 | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
612 | 592 | ||