linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/18] soc: qcom: ipa: IPA network device and microcontroller

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Date:   Wed, 15 May 2019 10:21:31 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>,
        syadagir@...eaurora.org, mjavid@...eaurora.org,
        evgreen@...omium.org, Ben Chan <benchan@...gle.com>,
        Eric Caruso <ejcaruso@...gle.com>, abhishek.esse@...il.com,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/18] soc: qcom: ipa: IPA network device and microcontroller

On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 3:25 AM Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> This patch includes the code that implements a Linux network device,
> using one TX and one RX IPA endpoint.  It is used to implement the
> network device representing the modem and its connection to wireless
> networks.  There are only a few things that are really modem-specific
> though, and they aren't clearly called out here.  Such distinctions
> will be made clearer if we wish to support a network device for
> anything other than the modem.

This does not seem to do much at all, as far as I can see it's a fairly
small abstraction between the linux netdev layer and the actual
implementation. Could you just merge this file into whichever file
it interacts with most closely, and open-code the wrappers there?

      Arnd