From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030309AbcBZRpH (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:45:07 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:59396 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754821AbcBZRpC (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:45:02 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:44:59 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20160226.124459.2214228338245540067.davem@davemloft.net> To: andrew@lunn.ch Cc: blogic@openwrt.org, Fred.Chang@mediatek.com, steven.liu@mediatek.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Carlos.Huang@mediatek.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, matthias.bgg@gmail.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 03/12] net-next: mediatek: add embedded switch driver (ESW) From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20160226170545.GE12022@lunn.ch> References: <20160226151813.GD12022@lunn.ch> <56D06E3F.1020100@openwrt.org> <20160226170545.GE12022@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 09:45:01 -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 18:05:45 +0100 > I think it is great a vendor is providing funding to get code > upstream. However, that code needs to conform with current kernel > architecture and design philosophy. > > We as a community also need to be consistent. We have recently push > back on Microchip with there LAN9352 who want to do something very > similar, introduce the MAC and a very dumb switch driver. They are now > looking at what it means to do a DSA driver. There is also talk of > writing a DSA driver for the ks8995 family. > > As David said recently, a year ago this probably would of been > accepted. But now, switches need to be DSA or switchdev. +1