netdev - Re: Fwd: Kernel crash due to conflict between legacy and current DSA mv88e6xxx drivers ?

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Message-ID: <20200225195710.GC7663@lunn.ch>
Date:   Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:57:10 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Sriram Chadalavada <sriram.chadalavada@...dleap.ca>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Kernel crash due to conflict between legacy and current DSA
 mv88e6xxx drivers ?

> https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg556413.html seems to suggest
> that legacy DSA is still being used for Marvell 88e6xxx drivers.

No, as Florian says, legacy is not used any more. It has been removed

commit 93e86b3bc842c159a60e6987444bf3952adcd4db
Author: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Date:   Sun Apr 28 02:56:23 2019 +0200

    net: dsa: Remove legacy probing support

    Now that all drivers can be probed using more traditional methods,
    remove the legacy probe code.

    Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew