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

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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:34:45 +0300
From: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>
To: Romain Gantois <romain.gantois@...tlin.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, 
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>, Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, 
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>, Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>, 
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	Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>, Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, 
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	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, "Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>, 
	Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/5] net: stmmac: introduce pcs_init/pcs_exit
 stmmac operations

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 06:33:30PM +0200, Romain Gantois wrote:
> 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.

Awesome! Thanks.

-Serge(y)

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