netdev - RE: [net-next 0/3] ravb: Remove use of undocumented registers

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Date:   Mon, 2 Sep 2019 13:16:20 +0000
From:   Chris Paterson <Chris.Paterson2@...esas.com>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Simon Horman <horms+renesas@...ge.net.au>,
        Biju Das <biju.das@...renesas.com>,
        Fabrizio Castro <fabrizio.castro@...renesas.com>
CC:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>,
        Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [net-next 0/3] ravb: Remove use of undocumented registers

Hello Geert,

> From: netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org <netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org>
> On Behalf Of Geert Uytterhoeven
> Sent: 02 September 2019 09:16
> 
> Hi Simon, Biju, Fabrizio,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 10:06 AM Simon Horman
> <horms+renesas@...ge.net.au> wrote:
> > this short series cleans up the RAVB driver a little.
> >
> > The first patch corrects the spelling of the FBP field of SFO register.
> > This register field is unused and should have no run-time effect.
> >
> > The remaining two patches remove the use of undocumented registers
> > after some consultation with the internal Renesas BSP team.
> >
> > All patches have been lightly tested on:
> > * E3 Ebisu
> > * H3 Salvator-XS (ES2.0)
> > * M3-W Salvator-XS
> > * M3-N Salvator-XS
> 
> It would be good if someone could test this on an R-Car Gen2 board
> that uses ravb (iwg22d or iwg23s).

I've tried this series + net-next on the iwg23s haven't seen any issues from a quick sanity test.

Kind regards, Chris

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> > Kazuya Mizuguchi (2):
> >   ravb: correct typo in FBP field of SFO register
> >   ravb: Remove undocumented processing
> >
> > Simon Horman (1):
> >   ravb: TROCR register is only present on R-Car Gen3
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-
> m68k.org
> 
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
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