On 29.11.2014 10:59, Jiri Pirko wrote:

Lino, this was already discussed. So far there is no need to introduce
such new infrastructure. But we have deal that once the need appears, it
will be added (it easily can be).

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There is already an existing driver (see net/dsa) that addresses the
representation of switch devices. What is wrong with that?

This was already discussed as well. dsa is more of a driver for specific
devices (has for example highly integrated mdio interface). There is
also a deal to keep these 2 thing separated for now and try to merge
that as much as we can in the future.

I admit i did not follow the whole discussion. I was just wondering why
the existing dsa driver is not extended. But as you said it is planned
to do this in future. So thanks for your explanation.

Regards,
Lino