netdev - Re: [net-next 2/3] ravb: Remove undocumented processing

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Date:   Mon, 2 Sep 2019 20:41:14 +0300
From:   Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:     Simon Horman <horms+renesas@...ge.net.au>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        Kazuya Mizuguchi <kazuya.mizuguchi.ks@...esas.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 2/3] ravb: Remove undocumented processing

On 09/02/2019 11:06 AM, Simon Horman wrote:

> From: Kazuya Mizuguchi <kazuya.mizuguchi.ks@...esas.com>
> 
> This patch removes the use of the undocumented registers
> CDCR, LCCR, CERCR, CEECR and the undocumented BOC bit of the CCC register.

   The driver has many more #define's marked as undocumented. It's not clear
why you crammed the counters and the endianness bit in one patch. It clearly
needs to be split -- one patch for the MAC counters and one patch for the
AVB-DMAC bit.

> Current documentation for EtherAVB (ravb) describes the offset of
> what the driver uses as the BOC bit as reserved and that only a value of
> 0 should be written. Furthermore, the offsets used for the undocumented
> registers are also considered reserved nd should not be written to.
> 
> After some internal investigation with Renesas it remains unclear
> why this driver accesses these fields but regardless of what the historical
> reasons are the current code is considered incorrect.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kazuya Mizuguchi <kazuya.mizuguchi.ks@...esas.com>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@...ge.net.au>
[...]

MBR, Sergei