Florian Fainelli says:
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net: dsa: Support for pdata in dsa2
This is not exactly new, and was sent before, although back then, I did not
have an user of the pre-declared MDIO board information, but now we do. Note
that I have additional changes queued up to have b53 register platform data for
MIPS bcm47xx and bcm63xx.
Yes I know that we should have the Orion platforms eventually be converted to
Device Tree, but until that happens, I don't want any remaining users of the
old "dsa" platform device (hence the previous DTS submissions for ARM/mvebu)
and, there will be platforms out there that most likely won't never see DT
coming their way (BCM47xx is almost 100% sure, BCM63xx maybe not in a distant
future).
We would probably want the whole series to be merged via David Miller's tree
to simplify things.
Thanks!
Changes in v5:
- dropped changes to drivers/base/ because after more than a month, we cannot
get any answer from Greg KH
Changes in v4:
- Changed device_find_class() to device_find_in_class_name()
- Added kerneldoc above device_find_in_class_name() to explain what it does
and the calling convention regarding device reference counts
- Changed dev_to_net_device to device_to_net_device() added comments
about what it does and the caller conventions regarding reference counts
Changes in v3:
- Tested EPROBE_DEFER from a mockup MDIO/DSA switch driver and everything
is fine, once the driver finally probes we have access to platform data
as expected
- added comment above dsa_port_is_valid() that port->name is mandatory
for platform data cases
- added an extra check in dsa_parse_member() for a NULL pdata pointer
- fixed a bunch of checkpatch errors and warnings
Changes in v2:
- Rebased against latest net-next/master
- Moved dev_find_class() to device_find_class() into drivers/base/core.c
- Moved dev_to_net_device into net/core/dev.c
- Utilize dsa_chip_data directly instead of dsa_platform_data
- Augmented dsa_chip_data to be multi-CPU port ready
Changes from last submission (few months back):
- rebased against latest net-next
- do not introduce dsa2_platform_data which was overkill and was meant to
allow us to do exaclty the same things with platform data and Device Tree
we use the existing dsa_platform_data instead
- properly register MDIO devices when the MDIO bus is registered and associate
platform_data with them
- add a change to the Orion platform code to demonstrate how this can be used
Thank you
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>