linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 01/21] net: ravb: Let IP-specific receive function to interrogate descriptors

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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 23:39:09 +0300
From: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>
To: Claudiu <claudiu.beznea@...on.dev>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<edumazet@...gle.com>, <kuba@...nel.org>, <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	<richardcochran@...il.com>, <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
	<yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@...esas.com>, <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>,
	<geert+renesas@...der.be>
CC: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Claudiu Beznea
	<claudiu.beznea.uj@...renesas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 01/21] net: ravb: Let IP-specific receive
 function to interrogate descriptors

On 12/14/23 2:45 PM, Claudiu wrote:

> From: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea.uj@...renesas.com>
> 
> ravb_poll() initial code used to interrogate the first descriptor of the
> RX queue in case gPTP is false to determine if ravb_rx() should be called.
> This is done for non-gPTP IPs. For gPTP IPs the driver PTP-specific
> information was used to determine if receive function should be called. As
> every IP has its own receive function that interrogates the RX descriptors
> list in the same way the ravb_poll() was doing there is no need to double
> check this in ravb_poll(). Removing the code from ravb_poll() leads to a
> cleaner code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea.uj@...renesas.com>

Reviewed-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>

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MBR, Sergey