netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 5/8] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add switch register helpers

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Message-ID: <20160609023934.GK2227@lunn.ch>
Date:	Thu, 9 Jun 2016 04:39:34 +0200
From:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:	Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel@...oirfairelinux.com,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/8] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add switch register
 helpers

On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 08:44:53PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Extract the allocation and registration code related to the dsa_switch
> structure in a mv88e6xxx_register_switch helper function.
> 
> For symmetry in the code, add a mv88e6xxx_unregister_switch function.

You say what you are doing, but not why?

    Andrew