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authorFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>2016-08-28 00:34:20 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-08-29 05:43:06 +0200
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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.
TODO
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-The platform device problem
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-DSA is currently implemented as a platform device driver which is far from ideal
-as was discussed in this thread:
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-http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/329848
-
-This basically prevents the device driver model to be properly used and applied,
-and support non-MDIO, non-MMIO Ethernet connected switches.
-
-Another problem with the platform device driver approach is that it prevents the
-use of a modular switch drivers build due to a circular dependency, illustrated
-here:
-
-http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/345803
-
-Attempts of reworking this has been done here:
-
-https://lwn.net/Articles/643149/
-
Making SWITCHDEV and DSA converge towards an unified codebase
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