Documentation: networking: dsa: Remove platform device TODO
authorFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Sat, 27 Aug 2016 22:34:20 +0000 (15:34 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 29 Aug 2016 03:43:06 +0000 (23:43 -0400)
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 <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt

index 9d05ed7f7da51648cafeee84a2a21d9711c19dde..f20c884c048afe16409a566bb36c589b39864209 100644 (file)
@@ -587,26 +587,6 @@ of DSA, would be the its port-based VLAN, used by the associated bridge device.
 TODO
 ====
 
-The platform device problem
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-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
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