netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-v2 0/6] net: dsa: Make bcm_sf2 utilize b53

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Date:   Fri, 26 Aug 2016 12:08:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jonas.gorski@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch,
        vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-v2 0/6] net: dsa: Make bcm_sf2 utilize
 b53_common

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 09:24:35 -0700

> Hi all,
> 
> This patch series makes the bcm_sf2 driver utilize a large number of the core
> functions offered by the b53_common driver since the SWITCH_CORE registers are
> mostly register compatible with the switches driven by b53_common.
> 
> In order to accomplish that, we just override the dsa_driver_ops callbacks that
> we need to. There are still integration specific logic from the bcm_sf2 that we
> cannot absorb into b53_common because it is just not there, mostly in the area
> of link management and power management, but most of the features are within
> b53_common now: VLAN, FDB, bridge
> 
> Along the process, we also improve support for the BCM58xx SoCs, since those
> also have the same version of the switching IP that 7445 has (for which bcm_sf2
> was developed).
> 
> Changes in v2:
> 
> - rebased against "net: dsa: rename switch operations structure"

This still doesn't apply cleanly to net-next, can you respin it one more
time and double check your work?

Thanks.