netdev - [PATCH net-next v2 0/3] net: ptp: use common defines for PTP message types in further drivers

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Date:   Tue, 24 Nov 2020 08:44:15 +0100
From:   Christian Eggers <ceggers@...i.de>
To:     Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
CC:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Christian Eggers <ceggers@...i.de>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 0/3] net: ptp: use common defines for PTP message types in further drivers

Changes in v2:
----------------
- resend, as v1 was sent before the prerequisites were merged
- removed mismatch between From: and Signed-off-by:
- [2/3] Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>
- [3/3] Reviewed-by: Antoine Tenart <atenart@...nel.org>
- [3/3] removed dead email addresses from Cc:


This series replaces further driver internal enumeration / uses of magic
numbers with the newly introduced PTP_MSGTYPE_* defines.

On Friday, 20 November 2020, 23:39:10 CET, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 09:41:03AM +0100, Christian Eggers wrote:
> > This series introduces commen defines for PTP event messages. Driver
> > internal defines are removed and some uses of magic numbers are replaced
> > by the new defines.
> > [...]
> 
> I understand that you don't want to spend a lifetime on this, but I see
> that there are more drivers which you did not touch.
> 
> is_sync() in drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c can be made to
> 	return ptp_get_msgtype(hdr, type) == PTP_MSGTYPE_SYNC;
> 
> this can be removed from drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_ptp.h:
> enum {
> 	MLXSW_SP_PTP_MESSAGE_TYPE_SYNC,
> 	MLXSW_SP_PTP_MESSAGE_TYPE_DELAY_REQ,
> 	MLXSW_SP_PTP_MESSAGE_TYPE_PDELAY_REQ,
> 	MLXSW_SP_PTP_MESSAGE_TYPE_PDELAY_RESP,
> };
I think that I have found an addtional one in the Microsemi VSC85xx PHY driver.