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Message-ID: <5A57083856F7D3CC+20250901021822.GB21078@nic-Precision-5820-Tower>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 10:18:22 +0800
From: Yibo Dong <dong100@...se.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v9 5/5] net: rnpgbe: Add register_netdev

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 09:51:57PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > Back to the ^C handling. This could be interrupted before the firmware
> > > is told the driver is loaded. That EINTR is thrown away here, so the
> > > driver thinks everything is O.K, but the firmware still thinks there
> > > is no MAC driver. What happens then?
> > > 
> > 
> > The performance will be very poor since low working frequency,
> > that is not we want.
> > 
> > > And this is the same problem i pointed out before, you ignore EINTR in
> > > a void function. Rather than fix one instance, you should of reviewed
> > > the whole driver and fixed them all. You cannot expect the Reviewers
> > > to do this for you.
> > 
> > I see, I will change 'void' to 'int' in order to handle err, and try to check
> > other functions.
> 
> Also, consider, do you really want ^C handling? How many other drivers
> do this? How much time and effort is it going to take you to fix up
> all the calls which might return -EINTR and your code is currently
> broken?
> 
> 	Andrew
> 

Originally ^C is designed to handle '/sys/xxx’, and as you said before,
'It is pretty unusual for ethernet drivers to export data in /sys'.
I should use 'metex_lock', not 'mutex_lock_interruptible'.

Thanks for your feedback.