netdev - Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] net: dsa: rtl8366rb: standardize init jam tables

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Message-ID: <b87f3bb5-4a37-9525-91cf-bbff8df80399@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:18:15 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Lorenzo Carletti <lorenzo.carletti98@...il.com>,
        linus.walleij@...aro.org
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, vivien.didelot@...il.com, olteanv@...il.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] net: dsa: rtl8366rb: standardize init jam tables



On 1/26/2021 5:06 PM, 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.
> 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
> jam_tbl_entry arrays. Each entry contains 2 u16 values.
> This change makes it easier to understand how the jam tables are used
> and also makes it possible for a single function to handle all of them,
> removing some duplicated code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Carletti <lorenzo.carletti98@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
-- 
Florian