From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 18:05:45 +0100

I think it is great a vendor is providing funding to get code
upstream. However, that code needs to conform with current kernel
architecture and design philosophy.

We as a community also need to be consistent. We have recently push
back on Microchip with there LAN9352 who want to do something very
similar, introduce the MAC and a very dumb switch driver. They are now
looking at what it means to do a DSA driver. There is also talk of
writing a DSA driver for the ks8995 family.

As David said recently, a year ago this probably would of been
accepted. But now, switches need to be DSA or switchdev.

+1