Re: [PATCH net-next 02/16] net: dsa: add ports list in the switch fabric

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Sun Oct 20 2019 - 22:58:38 EST




On 10/19/2019 8:19 PM, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Add a list of switch ports within the switch fabric. This will help the
> lookup of a port inside the whole fabric, and it is the first step
> towards supporting multiple CPU ports, before deprecating the usage of
> the unique dst->cpu_dp pointer.
>
> In preparation for a future allocation of the dsa_port structures,
> return -ENOMEM in case no structure is returned, even though this
> error cannot be reached yet.

BTW, this patch had a small hunk while applying which forced git am to
ask for manual resolution, my net-next tree was based off
v5.4-rc1-582-gebcd670d05d5.
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Florian