netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/7] net: dsa: Add devlink regions support to DSA

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Date:   Mon, 17 Aug 2020 00:06:32 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Chris Healy <cphealy@...il.com>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/7] net: dsa: Add devlink regions support to DSA

> Could we perhaps open-code these from the drivers themselves? There's
> hardly any added value in DSA providing a "helper" for creation of
> devlink resources (regions, shared buffers, etc).

It is something i considered. But we already have devlink wrappers. It
would be odd to have some parts of devlink wrapped and other parts
not.

The wrapping of phys is also causing Russell King problems. Both
phylink and devlink structures are mostly hidden away in the DSA core,
but do leak a bit into the drivers.

If we do change to open coding, would we remove the existing wrappers
as well?

> Take the ocelot/felix driver for example.

ocelot/felix is just plain odd. We have to do a balancing act for
it. We don't want to take stuff out of the core just for this one odd
switch, at the detriment for other normal DSA drivers.

	Andrew