linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: remove dev arg of dsa_register

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Date:   Wed, 31 May 2017 12:36:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...oirfairelinux.com, f.fainelli@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: remove dev arg of
 dsa_register_switch

From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 18:12:51 -0400

> The current dsa_register_switch function takes a useless struct device
> pointer argument, which always equals ds->dev.
> 
> Drivers either call it with ds->dev, or with the same device pointer
> passed to dsa_switch_alloc, which ends up being assigned to ds->dev.
> 
> This patch removes the second argument of the dsa_register_switch and
> _dsa_register_switch functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>

Those invariants seem to hold indeed, so this looks fine, applied.