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authorFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>2016-08-27 18:34:20 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-08-28 23:43:06 -0400
commit7d13eca09ed5e477f6ecfd97a35058762228b5e4 (patch)
treec9628325726ff6236e0e39e8911350dcf396dd83
parente4d986a878e0eb9e46f851a564189f8204cc677f (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>
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@@ -587,26 +587,6 @@ of DSA, would be the its port-based VLAN, used by the associated bridge device.
587TODO 587TODO
588==== 588====
589 589
590The platform device problem
591---------------------------
592DSA is currently implemented as a platform device driver which is far from ideal
593as was discussed in this thread:
594
595http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/329848
596
597This basically prevents the device driver model to be properly used and applied,
598and support non-MDIO, non-MMIO Ethernet connected switches.
599
600Another problem with the platform device driver approach is that it prevents the
601use of a modular switch drivers build due to a circular dependency, illustrated
602here:
603
604http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/345803
605
606Attempts of reworking this has been done here:
607
608https://lwn.net/Articles/643149/
609
610Making SWITCHDEV and DSA converge towards an unified codebase 590Making SWITCHDEV and DSA converge towards an unified codebase
611------------------------------------------------------------- 591-------------------------------------------------------------
612 592