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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:17:50 +0800
From: Kenneth Lee <liguozhu@...ilicon.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] net: add Hisilicon Network Subsystem MDIO support
Thanks, Arnd,
You are right. This is the same IP as hip04_mdio.c. We just mis-understand the
hardware design. We will merge them and re-submit the patches.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 10:57:28PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 14 August 2015 18:30:20 Kenneth Lee wrote:
>
> > +#define MDIO_BASE_ADDR 0x403C0000
>
> Does not belong in here (and is not used)
>
> > +#define MDIO_COMMAND_REG 0x0
> > +#define MDIO_ADDR_REG 0x4
> > +#define MDIO_WDATA_REG 0x8
> > +#define MDIO_RDATA_REG 0xc
> > +#define MDIO_STA_REG 0x10
>
> These look suspiciously similar to definitions from
> drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_mdio.c.
>
> Could the hardware be related? If so, please try to share
> the common parts.
>
> > +static inline void mdio_write_reg(void *base, u32 reg, u32 value)
> > +{
> > + u8 __iomem *reg_addr = ACCESS_ONCE(base);
> > +
> > + writel(value, reg_addr + reg);
> > +}
> > +
> > +#define MDIO_WRITE_REG(a, reg, value) \
> > + mdio_write_reg((a)->vbase, (reg), (value))
> >
>
> Something seems wrong here: why do you have an ACCESS_ONCE() on a
> local variable? Doesn't this just make the code less efficient
> without providing lockless access to shared variables?
>
> The types are inconsistent here, you should get a warning from
> running this through 'make C=1' because of the missing __iomem
> annotation of the pointer.
>
> Also, why both a macro and an inline function? Just use an inline
> function.
>
> Arnd
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