netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v1 2/5] net: dsa: microchip: add an enum for regmap widths

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Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 19:53:07 +0200
From: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@...rochip.com>,
	Arun Ramadoss <arun.ramadoss@...rochip.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	"Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>, kernel@...gutronix.de,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 2/5] net: dsa: microchip: add an enum for
 regmap widths

On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 07:03:38PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 02:32:17PM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
> > 
> > It is not immediately obvious that this driver allocates, via the
> > KSZ_REGMAP_TABLE() macro, 3 regmaps for register access: dev->regmap[0]
> > for 8-bit access, dev->regmap[1] for 16-bit and dev->regmap[2] for
> > 32-bit access.
> > 
> > In future changes that add support for reg_fields, each field will have
> > to specify through which of the 3 regmaps it's going to go. Add an enum
> > now, to denote one of the 3 register access widths, and make the code go
> > through some wrapper functions for easier review and further
> > modification.
> 
> Given the patches in this series, it is not obvious why the wrapper is
> needed.
> 
> dev->regmap[KSZ_REGMAP_8] is just as readable as ksz_regmap_8(dev).
>
> Do future changes add extra parameters to ksz_regmap_8()?

As for me, it looks short. Less problems with line length restrictions.

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