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Message-ID: <YtQnWsz/X6yGBo3g@lunn.ch> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 17:14:34 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> To: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH net 01/15] docs: net: dsa: update probing documentation Hi Vladimir > +Switch registration from the perspective of a driver means passing a valid > +``struct dsa_switch`` pointer to ``dsa_register_switch()``, usually from the > +switch driver's probing function. The following members must be valid in the > +provided structure: > + > +- ``ds->priv``: backpointer to a driver-private data structure which can be > + retrieved in all further DSA method callbacks. I'm not sure this is strictly true. The DSA core itself should not use ds->priv. And the driver could use other means, like dev_get_platdata(ds->dev->pdev) to get at is private data. But in practice it is true. Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> Andrew
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