From: Florian Fainelli Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 22:34:20 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Documentation: networking: dsa: Remove platform device TODO X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7d13eca09ed5e477f6ecfd97a35058762228b5e4;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git 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 Acked-by: Andrew Lunn Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- 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. TODO ==== -The platform device problem ---------------------------- -DSA is currently implemented as a platform device driver which is far from ideal -as was discussed in this thread: - -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 -------------------------------------------------------------