linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/5] net: stmmac: introduce pcs_init/pcs

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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:33:30 +0200 (CEST)
From: Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@...tlin.com>
To: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/5] net: stmmac: introduce pcs_init/pcs_exit
 stmmac operations

Hi Serge,

On Wed, 24 Apr 2024, Serge Semin wrote:

> Once again. There is a ready-to-use stmmac_xpcs_setup() method. Which
> is currently intended for the XPCS setups. Let's collect all the
> PCS-related stuff in a single place there. That will make code cleaner
> and easier to read. This was discussed on v3:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/42chuecdt7dpgm6fcrtt2crifvv5hflmtnmdrw5fvk3r7pwjgu@hlcv56dbeosf/
> 
> You agreed to do that, but just ignored in result. I'll repeat what I
> said in v3:

Yeah sorry I took a quick look at your merged patches and thought that 
stmmac_xpcs_setup() had been repurposed in the meantime, but it seems like I was 
just confused about that.

> It doesn't look as that much hard thing to do, but will cause having a
> better readable code by providing a single coherent function for all
> PCS'es.

Sure, I'll get to it in v5.

Thanks,

-- 
Romain Gantois, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com