netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: dsa: remove restriction on platform

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Message-Id: <20150309.161207.896677058678728795.davem@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 09 Mar 2015 16:12:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...hat.com>
To:	f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com,
	jerome.oufella@...oirfairelinux.com, linux@...ck-us.net,
	andrew@...n.ch, cphealy@...il.com, mathieu@...eaurora.org,
	jonasj76@...il.com, andrey.volkov@...vision.fr,
	Chris.Packham@...iedtelesis.co.nz
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: dsa: remove restriction on
 platform_device

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Mon,  9 Mar 2015 12:02:28 -0700

> This patch series removes the restriction in DSA to operate exclusively with
> platform_device Ethernet MAC drivers when using Device Tree. This basically
> allows arbitrary Ethernet MAC drivers to be used now in conjunction with
> Device Tree.
> 
> The reason was that DSA was using a of_find_device_by_node() which limits
> the device_node to device pointer search exclusively to platform_device,
> in our case, we are interested in doing a "class" research and lookup the
> net_device.
> 
> Thanks to Chris Packham for testing this on his platform.

Looks like there is a V2 coming of this series based upon feedback.
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