Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2 v2] net: dsa: remove restriction on platform_device

From: Guenter Roeck <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:34:45 -0700

On 03/09/2015 02:31 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This patch series removes the restriction in DSA to operate exclusively with
> platform_device Ethernet MAC drivers when using Device Tree. This basically
> allows arbitrary Ethernet MAC drivers to be used now in conjunction with
> Device Tree.
>
> The reason was that DSA was using a of_find_device_by_node() which limits
> the device_node to device pointer search exclusively to platform_device,
> in our case, we are interested in doing a "class" research and lookup the
> net_device.
>
> Thanks to Chris Packham for testing this on his platform.
>
> Changes in v2:
>
> - fix build for !CONFIG_OF_NET
>
> Florian Fainelli (2):
>    net: core: add of_find_net_device_by_node()
>    net: dsa: utilize of_find_net_device_by_node
>
>   include/linux/of_net.h |  8 ++++++++
>   include/net/dsa.h      |  1 +
>   net/core/net-sysfs.c   | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   net/dsa/dsa.c          | 16 +++++++++++-----
>   4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
Both patches building (and working) fine with !CONFIG_OF_NET.

Guenter