Re: [RFC net-next 2/2] net: dsa: Add driver for Maxlinear GSW1XX switch

[Andrew Lunn]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 08:35:17AM +0200, Camel Guo wrote:
> On 10/25/22 16:56, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(gsw1xx_shutdown);
> > > 
> > > 1. EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
> > > 2. Why do you do it in the first place? It's one driver, no need for
> > > building two modules. Same applies to other places.
> > 
> > At some point, there is likely to be SPI and UART support. The
> > communication with the chip and the core driver will then be in
> > separate modules. But i agree this is not needed at the moment when it
> > is all linked into one.
> 
> Do you suggest that currently we put the content of gsw1xx_core.c and
> gsw1xx_mdio.c into one file and split them later at the time when another
> management mode (e,g: spi) is added?

No, keep them separate. But you can remove the module exports, and
just link them together at compile time into one module. For forward
compatibility, call that module gsw1xx_mdio.ko. In the future,
somebody can then split it apart again, add gsw1xx_spi.ko, and module
dependencies should cause the gsw1xx_core.ko to be loaded first.

     Andrew