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| author | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2016-10-20 00:10:27 -0300 |
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| committer | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2016-10-20 00:10:27 -0300 |
| commit | d0b2f91bede3bd5e3d24dd6803e56eee959c1797 (patch) | |
| tree | 7fee4ab0509879c373c4f2cbd5b8a5be5b4041ee /Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt | |
| parent | e914f8eb445e8f74b00303c19c2ffceaedd16a05 (diff) | |
Linux-libre 4.8.2-gnupck-4.8.2-gnu
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt index 9d05ed7f7..f20c884c0 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 ------------------------------------------------------------- |