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From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux•com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>, David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail•com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] DSA refactoring: set 1
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 23:16:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2k3ikip.fsf@ketchup.mtl.sfl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1460404209-32083-1-git-send-email-andrew@lunn.ch>

Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch> writes:

> There has been a long running effort to refractor DSA probing to make
> the switches true linux devices. Here are a small collection of
> patches moving in this direction. Most have been seen before.
>
> We take a little step forward by passing the dsa device point to the
> driver, thus allowing it to perform resource allocations using the
> normal mechanisms. This device structure will later be replaced by the
> devices own device structure.
>
> Future patches will add a true driver probe function, so we rename the
> current probe function, cleaning up the namespace.
>
> phys_port_mask continually confuses me, thinking it is about PHYs. But
> it is actually about ports to the outside world, user ports. So rename
> it.
>
> Lots more patches yet to follow, this is just doing some ground work.
>
> Andrew Lunn (7):
>   net: dsa: Pass the dsa device to the switch drivers
>   net: dsa: Have the switch driver allocate there own private memory
>   net: dsa: Remove allocation of driver private memory
>   net: dsa: Keep the mii bus and address in the private structure
>   net: dsa: Rename DSA probe function.
>   dsa: Rename phys_port_mask to user_port_mask
>   dsa: mv88e6xxx: Use bus in mv88e6xxx_lookup_name()
>
>  drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c   | 24 +++++++++++++-------
>  drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6060.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6060.h | 11 +++++++++
>  drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6123.c | 14 +++++++-----
>  drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6131.c | 14 +++++++-----
>  drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6171.c | 14 +++++++-----
>  drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6352.c | 14 +++++++-----
>  drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx.h | 17 +++++++++++---
>  include/net/dsa.h           | 16 ++++++++-----
>  net/dsa/dsa.c               | 19 +++++++++-------
>  11 files changed, 166 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-)

Tested-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux•com>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-12  3:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-11 19:50 [PATCH net-next 0/7] DSA refactoring: set 1 Andrew Lunn
2016-04-11 19:50 ` [PATCH net-next 1/7] net: dsa: Pass the dsa device to the switch drivers Andrew Lunn
2016-04-11 19:50 ` [PATCH net-next 2/7] net: dsa: Have the switch driver allocate there own private memory Andrew Lunn
2016-04-11 19:50 ` [PATCH net-next 3/7] net: dsa: Remove allocation of driver " Andrew Lunn
2016-04-11 19:50 ` [PATCH net-next 4/7] net: dsa: Keep the mii bus and address in the private structure Andrew Lunn
2016-04-11 19:50 ` [PATCH net-next 5/7] net: dsa: Rename DSA probe function Andrew Lunn
2016-04-11 19:50 ` [PATCH net-next 6/7] dsa: Rename phys_port_mask to user_port_mask Andrew Lunn
2016-04-11 20:03   ` Florian Fainelli
2016-04-11 20:31     ` Andrew Lunn
2016-04-11 19:50 ` [PATCH net-next 7/7] dsa: mv88e6xxx: Use bus in mv88e6xxx_lookup_name() Andrew Lunn
2016-04-12  3:15   ` Vivien Didelot
2016-04-12  3:16 ` Vivien Didelot [this message]

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