netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 00/12] net: stmmac: Clean-up and tune-up

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Date:   Fri, 18 May 2018 11:09:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Joao.Pinto@...opsys.com,
        Vitor.Soares@...opsys.com, peppe.cavallaro@...com,
        alexandre.torgue@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 00/12] net: stmmac: Clean-up and tune-up

From: Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 14:55:57 +0100

> This targets to uniformize the handling of the different GMAC versions in
> stmmac_main.c file and also tune-up the HW.
> 
> Currently there are some if/else conditions in the main source file which
> calls different callbacks depending on the ID of GMAC.
> 
> With the introducion of a generic HW interface handling which automatically
> selects the GMAC callbacks to be used, it is now unpleasant to see if
> conditions in the main code because this should be completely agnostic of the
> GMAC version.
> 
> This series removes most of these conditions. There are some if conditions
> that remain untouched but the callbacks handling are now uniformized.
> 
> Tested in GMAC5, hope I didn't break any previous versions.
> 
> Please check [1] for performance analisys of patches 3-12.

This looks a lot better, series applied, thanks.


> This will probably generate a merge conflict with [2] (which was not merged
> yet). I'm waiting for Corentin input and then, if this series is merged
> before, I will rebase [2]. Or the other way around if you prefer :D

Since I just merged this, please rebase 2.

Thank you.