[PATCH net-next v2 5/5] net-next: dsa: add dsa support for Mediatek MT7530 switch

Felix Fietkau nbd at nbd.name
Thu Mar 23 07:30:05 PDT 2017


On 2017-03-23 15:25, John Crispin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 23/03/17 15:09, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> On 2017-03-23 09:06, Sean Wang wrote:
>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>
>>> The purpose for the regmap table registered is to
>>>
>>> provide a way which helps us to look up a specific
>>>
>>> register on the switch through regmap-debugfs.
>>>
>>>
>>> And not all ranges of register is defined
>>>
>>> so I only include the meaningful ones in a sparse way
>>>
>>> for the table.
>> I think in that case it might be nice to make regmap support optional in
>> order to avoid pulling in bloat on platforms that don't need it.
>>
>> - Felix
>>
> The 2 relevant platforms are mips/ralink and arm/mediatek. both require 
> regmap for the eth_sysctl syscon if they want to utilize the mtk_soc_eth 
> driver which is a prereq for mt7530. so regmap cannot be optional here.
Makes sense, thanks.

- Felix




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