Re: [RFC 07/20] net: dsa: list ports in switch\\

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Thu Apr 28 2016 - 13:03:09 EST


On 27/04/16 16:15, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 06:30:04PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
>> List DSA port structures in their switch structure, so that drivers can
>> iterate on them to retrieve information such as their ports membership.
>
> And this would be so much easier using a plan array.

Agreed, I do not see much value in doing this at the moment. Even if you
have unused ports in a switch, allocating an array is a small price to
pay compared to directly indexing by port number.

NAK from me unless there is a compelling reason for doing so.
--
Florian