netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 02/16] net: dsa: add ports list in the switch fabric

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Message-ID: <d1b9e4c7-9641-39bb-f559-a64014e7d5ba@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 20 Oct 2019 19:58:34 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 02/16] net: dsa: add ports list in the switch
 fabric



On 10/19/2019 8:19 PM, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Add a list of switch ports within the switch fabric. This will help the
> lookup of a port inside the whole fabric, and it is the first step
> towards supporting multiple CPU ports, before deprecating the usage of
> the unique dst->cpu_dp pointer.
> 
> In preparation for a future allocation of the dsa_port structures,
> return -ENOMEM in case no structure is returned, even though this
> error cannot be reached yet.

BTW, this patch had a small hunk while applying which forced git am to
ask for manual resolution, my net-next tree was based off
v5.4-rc1-582-gebcd670d05d5.
-- 
Florian