netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 6/6] net: lan966x: Add switchdev support

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Message-ID: <20211215092730.w4ptdsymqgdhtcte@skbuf>
Date:   Wed, 15 Dec 2021 09:27:31 +0000
From:   Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
To:     Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@...rochip.com>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
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        "kuba@...nel.org" <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "robh+dt@...nel.org" <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        "UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com" <UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com>,
        "linux@...linux.org.uk" <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
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        "vivien.didelot@...il.com" <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        "andrew@...n.ch" <andrew@...n.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 6/6] net: lan966x: Add switchdev support

On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 03:31:29PM +0100, Horatiu Vultur wrote:
> So long story short, I agree with your comments, I can make the
> notifier_block as singleton objects and start to use
> switchdev_handle_port_obj_add and the other variants.
> In this way it should also work "parallel instances of the driver".

To be clear, what I'd like to see for v5 is a set of patterns that is
simple, clean and functional enough that it could be copied by other
drivers - I'd be interested in limiting the VLANs on the CPU ports in
DSA too.