netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Polling be gone on LAN95xx

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Date:   Thu, 28 Apr 2022 14:19:56 +0200
From:   Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>
To:     Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@...well.net>,
        UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com, Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, Andre Edich <andre.edich@...rochip.com>,
        Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@...labora.com>,
        Gabriel Hojda <ghojda@...urs.ro>,
        Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@...glemail.com>,
        Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@....de>,
        Philipp Rosenberger <p.rosenberger@...bus.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Polling be gone on LAN95xx

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 02:37:15PM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 07:48:00AM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> > Do away with link status polling on LAN95XX USB Ethernet
> > and rely on interrupts instead, thereby reducing bus traffic,
> > CPU overhead and improving interface bringup latency.
> > 
> > The meat of the series is in patch [5/7].  The preceding and
> > following patches are various cleanups to prepare for and
> > adjust to interrupt-driven link state detection.
> 
> Tested-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>
> 
> Tested on:
> - LAN9514 (RPi2)
> - LAN9512 (EVB)
> - LAN9500 (EVB)

Thanks a lot for testing, this helps greatly.

> On USB unplug i get some not usable kernel message, but it is not the
> show stopper for me:
> smsc95xx 1-1.4.1:1.0 eth1: Error updating MAC full duplex mode
> smsc95xx 1-1.4.1:1.0 eth1: hardware isn't capable of remote wakeup

Okay, I've amended patch [4/7] to silence the first of these messages
if the error is caused by hot-removal.

The second message isn't related to this series, I'll address that
separately at a later point in time.

Thanks,

Lukas