netdev - Re: [PATCH] fsl/fman: remove of

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Message-Id: <20171003.214357.2276688669726195045.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:43:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     madalin.bucur@....com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsl/fman: remove of_node

From: Madalin-cristian Bucur <madalin.bucur@....com>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 08:49:31 +0000

> My patch removes the of_node that was set to a device that was not an
> of_device, preventing duplicated probing of both the real of_device
> and the "fake" one created through this assignment.
> 
> I understand that the DSA issue that triggered the initial change
> was related to DSA finding the network devices using 
> of_find_net_device_by_node(), something that will not work for the
> DPAA case where the netdevice does not have an of_node. I do not know
> enough about DSA to come up with a solution for this problem now.
> Andrew, Florian, can you please comment on this?

It sounds like you're knowingly breaking DSA.