netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] r8169: prepare for adding RTL8125 support

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Date:   Wed, 28 Aug 2019 01:27:13 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Chun-Hao Lin <hau@...ltek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] r8169: prepare for adding RTL8125 support

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 08:41:00PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> This patch prepares the driver for adding RTL8125 support:
> - change type of interrupt mask to u32
> - restrict rtl_is_8168evl_up to RTL8168 chip versions
> - factor out reading MAC address from registers
> - re-add function rtl_get_events
> - move disabling interrupt coalescing to RTL8169/RTL8168 init
> - read different register for PCI commit
> - don't use bit LastFrag in tx descriptor after send, RTL8125 clears it

Hi Heiner

That is a lot of changes in one patch. Although there is no planned
functional change, r8169 has a habit of breaking. Having lots of small
changes would help tracking down which change caused a breakage, via a
git bisect.

So you might want to consider splitting this up into a number of small
patches.

	Andrew