netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/4] net/mlx5_core: Use hardware registers description header file

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Message-ID: <20140930153445.GA9303@localhost.westell.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2014 08:34:49 -0700
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:	Eli Cohen <eli@....mellanox.co.il>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, ogerlitz@...lanox.com,
	yevgenyp@...lanox.com, Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/4] net/mlx5_core: Use hardware registers
 description header file

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 04:02:13PM +0300, Eli Cohen wrote:
> Add an auto generated header file that describes hardware registers along with
> set of macros that set/get values. The macros do static checks to avoid
> overflow, handle endianess, and overall provide a clean way to code commands.
> 
> A few commands were removed since they are not supported currently and will be
> added when support is available.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c |   36 -
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/qp.c  |    3 -
>  include/linux/mlx5/device.h                   |   74 +
>  include/linux/mlx5/driver.h                   |   76 +-
>  include/linux/mlx5/mlx5_ifc.h                 | 4464 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 4539 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-)

I find hard time believing that all of 4k auto generated macros
are actually used. Could you trim it down to only usable bits?

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