Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] net: dsa: b53: Move struct b53_device to include/linux/dsa/b53.h

[Florian Fainelli]

On 11/9/21 10:15 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 20:11, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/9/21 10:05 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>> On 11/9/21 1:50 AM, Martin Kaistra wrote:
>>>> In order to access the b53 structs from net/dsa/tag_brcm.c move the
>>>> definitions from drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_priv.h to the new file
>>>> include/linux/dsa/b53.h.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Martin Kaistra <martin.kaistra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_priv.h |  90 +----------------------------
>>>>  include/linux/dsa/b53.h        | 100 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>  2 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)
>>>>  create mode 100644 include/linux/dsa/b53.h
>>>
>>> All you really access is the b53_port_hwtstamp structure within the
>>> tagger, so please make it the only structure exposed to net/dsa/tag_brcm.c.
>>
>> You do access b53_dev in the TX part, still, I would like to find a more
>> elegant solution to exposing everything here, can you create a
>> b53_timecounter_cyc2time() function that is exported to modules but does
>> not require exposing the b53_device to net/dsa/tag_brcm.c?
>> --
>> Florian
> 
> Switch drivers can't export symbols to tagging protocol drivers, remember?
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210908220834.d7gmtnwrorhharna@skbuf/

I do now :) How about a function pointer in dsa_switch_ops that driver
can hook onto?
-- 
Florian