[PATCH] ath79: Push MV88E6060 DSA switch into package

[Felix Baumann]

Am 2. Januar 2025 22:40:20 MEZ schrieb Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>:
>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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It's already deactivated (so far as it isn't built anymore by default)
<https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/blob/main/target/linux/ath79/image/common-tp-link.mk#L42>

<https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/blob/main/target/linux/ath79/image/tiny-tp-link.mk#L481>

Regards
Felix Baumann