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Date:	Wed, 4 Aug 2010 15:08:51 +0800
From:	Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@...il.com>
To:	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
Cc:	Sachin Sanap <ssanap@...vell.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	akarkare@...vell.com, sarnaik@...vell.com, prakity@...vell.com,
	markb@...vell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add Fast Ethernet driver for PXA168.

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Lennert Buytenhek
<buytenh@...tstofly.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 04:17:50PM +0530, Sachin Sanap wrote:
>
>> This patch adds support for PXA168 Fast Ethernet on Aspenite
>> board.
>
> There's nothing Aspenite-specific in this patch (nor should there be),
> so you can leave that part out.
>
>
>> Patch generated against Linux 2.6.35-rc5
>> commit cd5b8f8755a89a57fc8c408d284b8b613f090345
>
> This might be interesting to know but shouldn't be part of the commit
> message.
>
>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-mmp/include/mach/pxa168_eth.h b/arch/arm/mach-mmp/include/mach/pxa168_eth.h
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..abfd335
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-mmp/include/mach/pxa168_eth.h
>> @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
>> +/*
>> + *pxa168 ethernet platform device data definition file.
>> + */
>> +#ifndef __LINUX_PXA168_ETH_H
>> +#define __LINUX_PXA168_ETH_H
>
> This should just be in include/linux, IMHO, as this unit isn't only used
> in the PXA168, for one.
>

Yep.

>
>> +struct pxa168_eth_platform_data {
>> +     int     port_number;
>> +     u16     phy_addr;
>> +
>> +     /* If speed is 0, then speed and duplex are autonegotiated. */
>> +     u32     speed;          /* 0, SPEED_10, SPEED_100 */
>> +     u32     duplex;         /* DUPLEX_HALF or DUPLEX_FULL */
>
> phylib treats these three (phy address, speed and duplex) as ints, is
> there any reason you need these to be of different types?
>
>
>> +     int (*init)(void);
>
> What's this needed for?  The name of this callback is entirely
> nondescriptive, there's no comment as to when it's called, etc.
>
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
>> index ce2fcdd..5ebf287 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
>> @@ -927,6 +927,16 @@ config SMC91X
>>         The module will be called smc91x.  If you want to compile it as a
>>         module, say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>.
>>
>> +config PXA168_ETH
>> +     tristate "Marvell pxa168 ethernet support"
>> +     depends on MACH_ASPENITE
>
> You can have it depend on ARM or PXA168, but having it depend on support
> for one specific board support file is almost certainly wrong.
>

depends on CPU_PXA168

probably makes more sense here.

And yeah we also found the driver to be very similar to mv643xx_eth
at that time, though not sure how much it resembles. So it would be
definitely good to have some comment why to make this a separate
driver, instead of reusing mv643xx_eth.
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