netdev - Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] AX88796C SPI Ethernet Adapter

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Message-ID: <CAJKOXPeAwUG4fRxb5KANg90SLAmJ27dj9fO5e2nWrbVGqpzRFg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 12 Nov 2020 12:53:17 +0100
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
To:     Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@...sung.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, jim.cromie@...il.com,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        "linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org" 
        <linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bartłomiej Żolnierkiewicz 
        <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] AX88796C SPI Ethernet Adapter

On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 12:51, Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@...sung.com> wrote:
>
> This is a driver for AX88796C Ethernet Adapter connected in SPI mode as
> found on ARTIK5 evaluation board. The driver has been ported from a
> v3.10.9 vendor kernel for ARTIK5 board.
>
> Changes in v6:
>   - fixed typos in Kconfig
>   - checked argument value in ax88796c_set_tunable
>   - updated tags in commit messages
>
> Changes in v5:
>   - coding style (local variable declarations)
>   - added spi0 node in the DT binding example and removed
>     interrupt-parent
>   - removed comp module parameter
>   - added CONFIG_SPI_AX88796C_COMPRESSION option to set the initial
>     state of SPI compression
>   - introduced new ethtool tunable "spi-compression" to controll SPI
>     transfer compression
>   - removed unused fields in struct ax88796c_device
>   - switched from using buffers allocated on stack for SPI transfers
>     to DMA safe ones embedded in struct ax_spi and allocated with
>     kmalloc()
>
> Changes in v4:
>   - fixed compilation problems in asix,ax88796c.yaml and in
>   ax88796c_main.c introduced in v3
>
> Changes in v3:
>   - modify vendor-prefixes.yaml in a separate patch
>   - fix several problems in the dt binding
>     - removed unnecessary descriptions and properties
>     - changed the order of entries
>     - fixed problems with missing defines in the example
>   - change (1 << N) to BIT(N), left a few (0 << N)
>   - replace ax88796c_get_link(), ax88796c_get_link_ksettings(),
>     ax88796c_set_link_ksettings(), ax88796c_nway_reset(),
>     ax88796c_set_mac_address() with appropriate kernel functions.
>   - disable PHY auto-polling in MAC and use PHYLIB to track the state
>     of PHY and configure MAC
>   - propagate return values instead of returning constants in several
>     places
>   - add WARN_ON() for unlocked mutex
>   - remove local work queue and use the system_wq
>   - replace phy_connect_direct() with phy_connect() and move
>     devm_register_netdev() to the end of ax88796c_probe()
>     (Unlike phy_connect_direct() phy_connect() does not crash if the
>     network device isn't registered yet.)
>   - remove error messages on ENOMEM
>   - move free_irq() to the end of ax88796c_close() to avoid race
>     condition
>   - implement flow-control
>
> Changes in v2:
>   - use phylib
>   - added DT bindings
>   - moved #includes to *.c files
>   - used mutex instead of a semaphore for locking
>   - renamed some constants
>   - added error propagation for several functions
>   - used ethtool for dumping registers
>   - added control over checksum offloading
>   - remove vendor specific PM
>   - removed macaddr module parameter and added support for reading a MAC
>     address from platform data (e.g. DT)
>   - removed dependency on SPI from NET_VENDOR_ASIX
>   - added an entry in the MAINTAINERS file
>   - simplified logging with appropriate netif_* and netdev_* helpers
>   - lots of style fixes
>
> Łukasz Stelmach (5):
>   dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: Add asix prefix
>   dt-bindings: net: Add bindings for AX88796C SPI Ethernet Adapter
>   net: ax88796c: ASIX AX88796C SPI Ethernet Adapter Driver
>   ARM: dts: exynos: Add Ethernet to Artik 5 board
>   ARM: defconfig: Enable ax88796c driver

Please don't send patches which were applied. It confuses everyone and
could cause double-applying through different tree.

Best regards,
Krzysztof