Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] net: remove dsa.h from netdevice.h

[Jiri Pirko]

Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 11:54:24PM CEST, vivien.didelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>In order to push switchdev objects down to DSA drivers, I need to include
>switchdev.h in dsa.h. But compilation fails because of a circular dependency
>issue, since dsa.h is also included in linux/netdevice.h.
>
>dsa.h is included for two purposes: to have the definition of struct
>dsa_switch_tree; and to have access to dsa_uses_tagged_protocol(), used by
>netdev_uses_dsa().
>
>This patchset forward declares struct dsa_switch_tree; adds a new uses_hw_tag
>boolean to struct net_device, which is more explicit than the DSA helper, and
>finally get rid of the dsa.h include.
>
>With this patchset, switchdev.h can safely be included in dsa.h.

Looks fine to me. I think that you should push this along with your
other patchset which actually needs this.

Thanks!
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