linux-kernel - Re: [RFC Patch net-next v2 2/9] net: dsa: microchip: move ksz_chip_data to ksz

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Date:   Mon, 16 May 2022 13:51:26 +0300
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Arun Ramadoss <arun.ramadoss@...rochip.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@...rochip.com>,
        UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Oleksij Rempel <linux@...pel-privat.de>,
        Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>,
        Michael Grzeschik <m.grzeschik@...gutronix.de>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch net-next v2 2/9] net: dsa: microchip: move
 ksz_chip_data to ksz_common

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 03:52:12PM +0530, Arun Ramadoss wrote:
> This patch moves the ksz_chip_data in ksz8795 and ksz9477 to ksz_common.
> At present, the dev->chip_id is iterated with the ksz_chip_data and then
> copy its value to the ksz_dev structure. These values are declared as
> constant.
> Instead of copying the values and referencing it, this patch update the
> dev->info to the ksz_chip_data based on the chip_id in the init
> function. And also update the ksz_chip_data values for the LAN937x based
> switches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arun Ramadoss <arun.ramadoss@...rochip.com>
> ---

Thanks, this looks good. I see that dev->info is assigned in
ksz_switch_register and I had to look to see whether there is any
dev->info dereference from before the call to ksz_switch_register(),
and it looks like we're ok.

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>