netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: rename switch operations structure

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Message-Id: <20160824.214619.11270068071703682.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 24 Aug 2016 21:46:19 -0700 (PDT)
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: rename switch operations structure

From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:38:56 -0400

> Now that the dsa_switch_driver structure contains only function pointers
> as it is supposed to, rename it to the more appropriate dsa_switch_ops,
> uniformly to any other operations structure in the kernel.
> 
> No functional changes here, basically just the result of something like:
> s/dsa_switch_driver *drv/dsa_switch_ops *ops/g
> 
> However keep the {un,}register_switch_driver functions and their
> dsa_switch_drivers list as is, since they represent the -- likely to be
> deprecated soon -- legacy DSA registration framework.
> 
> In the meantime, also fix the following checks from checkpatch.pl to
> make it happy with this patch:
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>

Applied, thanks Vivien.