linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH iwl-next 6/9] igc: Add support for frame preemption verification

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Message-ID: <20241217200952.000059f2@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:09:52 +0800
From: Furong Xu <0x1207@...il.com>
To: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Cc: Faizal Rahim <faizal.abdul.rahim@...ux.intel.com>, Tony Nguyen
 <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>, Przemek Kitszel
 <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David
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 Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>, John Fastabend
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Subject: Re: [PATCH iwl-next 6/9] igc: Add support for frame preemption
 verification

On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:22:54 +0200, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com> wrote:

> Anyway, while browsing through this software implementation of a
> verification process, I cannot help but think we'd be making a huge
> mistake to allow each driver to reimplement it on its own. We just
> recently got stmmac to do something fairly clean, with the help and
> great perseverence of Furong Xu (now copied).
> 
> I spent a bit of time extracting stmmac's core logic and putting it in
> ethtool. If Furong had such good will so as to regression-test the
> attached patch, do you think you could use this as a starting place
> instead, and implement some ops and call some library methods, instead
> of writing the entire logic yourself?
> 

I am quiet busy these days, especially near the end of the year :)

Maybe I can help testing the attached patch when the next time net-next opens.

Thanks.