netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 3/4] net: pcs: Drop the TSE PCS driver

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Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 19:07:07 +0200
From: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>
To: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, davem@...emloft.net,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 alexis.lothore@...tlin.com, thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com, Andrew Lunn
 <andrew@...n.ch>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Florian Fainelli
 <f.fainelli@...il.com>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>, Russell
 King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
 Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>,
 linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
 linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, Maxime Coquelin
 <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>, Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>, Alexandre
 Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>, Giuseppe Cavallaro
 <peppe.cavallaro@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 3/4] net: pcs: Drop the TSE PCS driver

On Fri, 26 May 2023 10:43:11 +0200
Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 09:42:51AM +0200, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> > Now that we can easily create a mdio-device that represents a
> > memory-mapped device that exposes an MDIO-like register layout, we
> > don't need the Altera TSE PCS anymore, since we can use the Lynx
> > PCS instead.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>
> > ---
> > V2->V3 : No changes
> > V1->V2 : No changes
> > 
> >  MAINTAINERS                      |   7 --
> >  drivers/net/pcs/Kconfig          |   6 --
> >  drivers/net/pcs/Makefile         |   1 -
> >  drivers/net/pcs/pcs-altera-tse.c | 160
> > ------------------------------- include/linux/pcs-altera-tse.h   |
> > 17 ---- 5 files changed, 191 deletions(-)  
> 
> Less is more.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>
> 

Thanks ! Also kudos to Russell who spotted the similarities between the
TSE and Lynx PCS in the first place, allowing for this driver to be
dropped :)