netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] spi: Micrel eth switch: declare missing of table

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Date:   Thu, 25 Apr 2019 19:04:48 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Daniel Gomez <dagmcr@...il.com>,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        javier@...hile0.org,
        "linux-spi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-spi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] spi: Micrel eth switch: declare missing of table

On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 07:33:10PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:

> Except having "switch" in the name this driver is solely a SPI driver
> and it uses no network code at all. And it has no dependency on any
> network driver. Therefore I wouldn't consider it a network driver.
> Else any functionality found on a SoC would need to be under drivers/soc ;)

Not seen the code here but what Heiner says makes sense to me - note
also that we did at some point add some network framework support for
ethernet switch chips so the device end of the SPI link should be
supportable via standard frameworks now.

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