netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] stmmac: pci: Use dmi_system_id table for retrieving PHY addresses

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Date:   Sun, 28 May 2017 18:52:40 +0200
From:   Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] stmmac: pci: Use dmi_system_id table for
 retrieving PHY addresses

On 2017-05-27 15:28, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com> wrote:
>> Avoids reimplementation of DMI matching in stmmac_pci_find_phy_addr.
> 
>>  struct stmmac_pci_dmi_data {
>> -       const char *name;
>> -       const char *asset_tag;
>> -       unsigned int func;
>> +       int func;
>>         int phy_addr;
>>  };
> 
> Can we leave unsigned type here...
> 
>> -static struct stmmac_pci_dmi_data quark_pci_dmi_data[] = {
>> +static const struct stmmac_pci_dmi_data galileo_stmmac_dmi_data[] = {
> 
>> +       {-1, -1},
>> +};
> 
>> +static const struct stmmac_pci_dmi_data iot2040_stmmac_dmi_data[] = {
> 
>> +       {-1, -1},
>> +};
> 
> ...and avoid this not so standard terminators?

0 is a valid PCI function, thus can't be use as terminator. Therefore I
chose -1 as an obviously invalid value.

> 
>> +               .matches = {
>> +                       DMI_EXACT_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "GalileoGen2"),
>> +               },
> 
>> +               .driver_data = (void *)galileo_stmmac_dmi_data,
> 
> Can't be slightly better
> 
>              .driver_data = &galileo_stmmac_dmi_data,
> 
> ?
> 

Interesting, that removes the "const" as well. OK.

Jan

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