From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422827AbcBZRfP (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:35:15 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:59188 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422768AbcBZRfM (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:35:12 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:35:10 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20160226.123510.2183497788787486032.davem@davemloft.net> To: andrew@lunn.ch Cc: blogic@openwrt.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, matthias.bgg@gmail.com, steven.liu@mediatek.com, Carlos.Huang@mediatek.com, Fred.Chang@mediatek.com Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 03/12] net-next: mediatek: add embedded switch driver (ESW) From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20160226151813.GD12022@lunn.ch> References: <1456496504-50429-1-git-send-email-blogic@openwrt.org> <1456496504-50429-4-git-send-email-blogic@openwrt.org> <20160226151813.GD12022@lunn.ch> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.6 on Emacs 24.5 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:35:12 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andrew Lunn Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 16:18:13 +0100 > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 03:21:35PM +0100, John Crispin wrote: >> The ESW is found in many of the old 100mbit MIPS based SoCs. it has 5 >> external ports, 1 cpu port and 1 further port that the internal HW >> offloading engine connects to. >> >> This driver is very basic and only provides basic init and irq support. >> The SoC and switch core both have support for a special tag making DSA >> support possible. > > Hi Crispin > > There was recently a discussion about adding switches without using > DSA or switchdev. It was pretty much decided we would not accept such > drivers. > > Sorry +1