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Documentation: networking: dsa: Update documentation 

Since 83c0afaec7 ("net: dsa: Add new binding implementation"), DSA is
no longer a platform device exclusively and can support registering DSA
switches from other bus drivers (PCI, USB, I2C, etc.).

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Florian Fainelli 2019-01-15 14:35:02 -08:00 committed by David S. Miller
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Design limitations
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DSA is a platform device driver
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DSA is implemented as a DSA platform device driver which is convenient because
it will register the entire DSA switch tree attached to a master network device
in one-shot, facilitating the device creation and simplifying the device driver
model a bit, this comes however with a number of limitations:
- building DSA and its switch drivers as modules is currently not working
- the device driver parenting does not necessarily reflect the original
bus/device the switch can be created from
- supporting non-MDIO and non-MMIO (platform) switches is not possible
Limits on the number of devices and ports
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