netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Do not clobber b53_switch

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Date:   Sun, 8 Jan 2017 21:16:45 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Do not clobber b53_switch_ops

> Agreed, and this was my initial approach, but I also wanted a minimal
> fix for David to pull into "net" while we can properly resolve this for
> "net-next" see below.

O.K, so in that case, this is fine.

> Making the ops const was my initial approach but there are several
> challenges to making it possible right now which I will address against
> net-next:
> 
> - register/unregister_switch_driver actually do modify dsa_switch_ops
> while updating the list pointer, so we need to encapsulate
> dsa_switch_ops into a dsa_switch_driver plus a list member

O.K, this is dsa v1. I had v2 in mind. Yes, the list needs
abstracting.

	Thanks
		Andrew