Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] net: dsa: Setup dsa_netdev_ops

[David Miller]

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 20:49:50 -0700

> This patch series addresses the overloading of a DSA CPU/management
> interface's netdev_ops for the purpose of providing useful information
> from the switch side.
> 
> Up until now we had duplicated the existing netdev_ops structure and
> added specific function pointers to return information of interest. Here
> we have a more controlled way of doing this by involving the specific
> netdev_ops function pointers that we want to be patched, which is easier
> for auditing code in the future. As a byproduct we can now maintain
> netdev_ops pointer comparisons which would be failing before (no known
> in tree problems because of that though).
> 
> Let me know if this approach looks reasonable to you and we might do the
> same with our ethtool_ops overloading as well.

This looks good to me, series applied.

And yes, doing something similar for ethtool_ops is probably a good idea
too.