netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/6] net: dsa: allow switch drivers to cleanup their resources

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Message-ID: <562F9BB1.8090700@baylibre.com>
Date:	Tue, 27 Oct 2015 16:43:45 +0100
From:	Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>
To:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com,
	Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>,
	Pavel Nakonechny <pavel.nakonechny@...tlab.ru>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Frode Isaksen <fisaksen@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] net: dsa: allow switch drivers to cleanup their
 resources

Hi,
On 10/27/2015 04:39 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 27/10/15 07:48, Neil Armstrong wrote:
>> Some switch drivers might request interrupts, remap register ranges,
>> allow such drivers to implement a "remove" callback doing just that.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> 
> This should probably be a Signed-off-by tag, but there is nothing using
> this, so you would want to introduce an user of this function in the
> same patch series so we see how you intend to use it?
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>

Yes, I didn't know how to handle this since it was part of a larger patch.

I forgot to add this into the cover-letter but I wanted to send an RFC serie with
your bcm remove patch and a mv88e6xxx remove experimental code.

Yet, the mv88e6060 does not make usage of this.

Neil
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