netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: dsa: rtl8366rb: standardize init jam tables

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Message-ID: <20210126210837.7mfzkjqsc3aui3fn@skbuf>
Date:   Tue, 26 Jan 2021 23:08:37 +0200
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Lorenzo Carletti <lorenzo.carletti98@...il.com>
Cc:     linus.walleij@...aro.org, andrew@...n.ch, vivien.didelot@...il.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: dsa: rtl8366rb: standardize init jam tables

Hi Lorenzo,

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 05:56:31AM +0100, Lorenzo Carletti wrote:
> In the rtl8366rb driver there are some jam tables which contain
> undocumented values.
> While trying to understand what these tables actually do,
> I noticed a discrepancy in how one of those was treated.

And did you manage to find out what these tables actually do?

> Most of them were plain u16 arrays, while the ethernet one was
> an u16 matrix.
> By looking at the vendor's droplets of source code these tables came from,
> I found out that they were all originally u16 matrixes.
> 
> This commit standardizes the jam tables, turning them all into
> u16 matrixes.

Why? What difference does it make?

> This change makes it easier to understand how the jam tables are used

No it doesn't?

> and also makes it possible for a single function to handle all of them,
> removing some duplicated code.

On which RTL8366RB chip revisions did you test for regressions?

On another note, the patch doesn't apply cleanly to net-next/master.