netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] net: stmmac: Enhanced addressing mode for DWMAC 4.10

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Date:   Fri, 20 Sep 2019 10:02:28 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>,
        Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        Bitan Biswas <bbiswas@...dia.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] net: stmmac: Enhanced addressing mode for DWMAC
 4.10

On 9/20/19 10:00 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> From: Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>
> 
> The DWMAC 4.10 supports the same enhanced addressing mode as later
> generations. Parse this capability from the hardware feature registers
> and set the EAME (Enhanced Addressing Mode Enable) bit when necessary.

Do you think these two patches should have companion Fixes: tag? They
are definitively bug fixes, but maybe you would also want those to be
back ported to -stable trees?

> 
> Thierry
> 
> Thierry Reding (2):
>   net: stmmac: Only enable enhanced addressing mode when needed
>   net: stmmac: Support enhanced addressing mode for DWMAC 4.10
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4.h  |  1 +
>  .../ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_descs.c    |  4 ++--
>  .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_dma.c  | 22 +++++++++++++++++++
>  .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_dma.h  |  3 +++
>  .../ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwxgmac2_dma.c    |  5 ++++-
>  .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c |  6 +++++
>  include/linux/stmmac.h                        |  1 +
>  7 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 


-- 
Florian