Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 2015 19:39:02 +0200 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Enable connecting DSA-based switch to the USB RMII interface. |
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> > I would however say that sysfs is the wrong API. The linux network > > stack uses netlink for most configuration activities. So i would > > suggest adding a netlink binding to DSA, and place the code in > > net/dsa/, not within an MDIO driver. > > I suppose we could do that, but that sounds like a pretty radical change > in how DSA is currently configured (that is statically at boot time), > part in order to allow booting from DSA-enabled network devices (e.g: > nfsroot).
We would keep both DT and platform device. But statically at boot does not work for a USB hotpluggable switch!
Andrew
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