linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: dsa: rtl8366rb: standardize init jam tables

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Date:   Tue, 26 Jan 2021 22:41:39 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Lorenzo Carletti <lorenzo.carletti98@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: dsa: rtl8366rb: standardize init jam tables

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 5:56 AM Lorenzo Carletti
<lorenzo.carletti98@...il.com> wrote:

> In the rtl8366rb driver there are some jam tables which contain
> undocumented values.
> While trying to understand what these tables actually do,
> I noticed a discrepancy in how one of those was treated.
> Most of them were plain u16 arrays, while the ethernet one was
> an u16 matrix.
> By looking at the vendor's droplets of source code these tables came from,
> I found out that they were all originally u16 matrixes.
>
> This commit standardizes the jam tables, turning them all into
> u16 matrixes.
> This change makes it easier to understand how the jam tables are used
> and also makes it possible for a single function to handle all of them,
> removing some duplicated code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Carletti <lorenzo.carletti98@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij