Design limitations
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-DSA is a platform device driver
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-DSA is implemented as a DSA platform device driver which is convenient because
-it will register the entire DSA switch tree attached to a master network device
-in one-shot, facilitating the device creation and simplifying the device driver
-model a bit, this comes however with a number of limitations:
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-- building DSA and its switch drivers as modules is currently not working
-- the device driver parenting does not necessarily reflect the original
- bus/device the switch can be created from
-- supporting non-MDIO and non-MMIO (platform) switches is not possible
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Limits on the number of devices and ports
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