[PATCH] ath79: Push MV88E6060 DSA switch into package

Hauke Mehrtens hauke at hauke-m.de
Thu Jan 2 13:40:20 PST 2025


On 1/2/25 22:27, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>>> As far as I can see the TP-Link TL WR941 v2 is the only device
>>> using MV88E6060 and the only device with a DSA switch overall.
>>>
>>> However the ath79 people should look at this so I'm not
>>> mistaken.
>>
>> At this point, tl-wr941nd v2/ v3 support can probably just as well be
>> dropped.
> 
> Sure, I don't have any opinion about that, this patch is mainly
> about turning the mv88e6060 support into a packaged module
> in general, saving space on all other devices, especially those
> with no DSA switch, as other DSA switches (such as qca8k)
> have recently moved toward using a module.
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij


Hi,

I would like to have this patch in OpenWrt and probably also in 24.10 as 
it saves some memory on an already constrained target without removing 
any functionality.

Maybe we can deactivate support for this board completely in a separate 
change later.

Hauke



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