netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 3/8] net: dsa: move call to driver port

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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 02:50:52 +0300
From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 3/8] net: dsa: move call to driver port_setup
 after creation of netdev

On Sat, Apr 06, 2024 at 03:13:30PM -0500, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
> 
> The driver-facing method port_setup() is a good place to add the LEDs of
> a port to the netdev representing the port. However, when port_setup()
> is called in dsa_port_devlink_setup(), the netdev does not exist
> yet. That only happens in dsa_user_create(), which is later in
> dsa_port_setup().
> 
> Move the call to port_setup() out of dsa_port_devlink_setup() and to
> the end of dsa_port_setup() where the netdev will exist. For the other
> port types, the call to port_setup() and port_teardown() remains where
> it was before (functionally speaking), but now it needs to be open-coded
> in their respective setup/teardown logic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
> ---

You can keep your author name and me as co-developer. If I changed your
author information it was probably a mistake.