linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] net: ax88796c: ASIX AX88796C SPI Ethernet Adapter Driver

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Message-ID: <20201019130215.GR139700@lunn.ch>
Date:   Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:02:15 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Lukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@...sung.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, jim.cromie@...il.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartłomiej Żolnierkiewicz 
        <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] net: ax88796c: ASIX AX88796C SPI Ethernet Adapter
 Driver

> I looked and I looked and I didn't see how I could reasonably manage
> asynchronous start_xmit calls, the work queue also supports at the
> moment.

O.K, keep it, since it has other uses. If it was just for interrupt
handling, threaded IRQs could of simplified the code. But it looks
like you cannot make that simplification.

     Andrew