Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:43:54 -0700 | From | Florian Fainelli <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] net: dsa: Complete and fix the dsa unbinding |
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On 30/09/15 01:21, Neil Armstrong wrote: > In order to cleanly unbind the dsa core, either as a module removal, > or a platform device unbind, switch the allocation the their devm_ > counterparts and complete the destroy functions. > > The last patch is an experimental way to exit the probe when no > switch is found in the discover process. > > The patches are based on the current net-next.
I looked at the patches and they bring DSA in a better direction. For future submissions, could you CC people who recently worked on DSA, like Andrew Lunn, Guenter Roeck, Vivien Didelot and myself? We can typically give your patches a try fairly quickly.
In case you are seriously considering making DSA a loadable module, there were an earlier attempt here:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/345803
Thanks!
> > Neil Armstrong (3): > net: dsa: Use devm_ prefixed allocations > net: dsa: complete dsa_switch_destroy calls > net: dsa: exit probe if no switch were found > > net/dsa/dsa.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- > 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) >
-- Florian
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