On 26/02/2016 16:18, Andrew Lunn wrote:

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 03:21:35PM +0100, John Crispin wrote:

quoted

The ESW is found in many of the old 100mbit MIPS based SoCs. it has 5
external ports, 1 cpu port and 1 further port that the internal HW
offloading engine connects to.

This driver is very basic and only provides basic init and irq support.
The SoC and switch core both have support for a special tag making DSA
support possible.

Hi Crispin

There was recently a discussion about adding switches without using
DSA or switchdev. It was pretty much decided we would not accept such
drivers.

Sorry

	Andrew

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Hi,

would the series be ok if we just dropped those parts and then have a
driver in the kernel that wont do much with the out of tree patches ?

the problem here is that on one side people complain about vendors not
sending code upstream. once they start being a good citizen and provide
funding to send stuff upstream the feedback tends to be very bad as seen
here. we are planning on doing a DSA driver but one step at a time. this
kind of feedback will inevitably lead to vendors doing second thoughts
of upstream contributions.

	John