Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 3/4] net: ti: icssg-prueth: Add support for ICSSG switch firmware on AM654 PG2.0 EVM

[Andrew Lunn]

> Thanks for the offline discussion and explanations. As discussed, we can
> not have one combined firmware to do both switch operations and dual
> emac operations. It is required to have two different firmwares.
> Currently which firmware to load is decided by flag 'is_switch_mode'
> which is set / unset by devlink. I will not use devlink here as asked by
> you. Instead, I'll use the approach suggested by you.
> ndo_open() will load the dual mac firmware. I'll swap to switch firmware
> when the second port is added to the same bridge as the first port.
> 
> I will re-work the changes and post v2 soon.

I'm sceptical you can actually make this work correctly, but lets see
what v2 contains.

     Andrew