netdev - RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v3 net 1/2] net: stmmac: add new mode parameter for fix_mac

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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 18:43:52 +0000
From: Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@....com>
To: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
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Subject: RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v3 net 1/2] net: stmmac: add new mode parameter
 for fix_mac_speed



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 1:37 AM
> To: Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@....com>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>; David S. Miller
> <davem@...emloft.net>; Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>; Jakub
> Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>; Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>; Maxime
> Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>; Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>;
> Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>; Neil Armstrong
> <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>; Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>; Vinod
> Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>; Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>; Jernej Skrabec
> <jernej.skrabec@...il.com>; Samuel Holland <samuel@...lland.org>; Jose
> Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>; imx@...ts.linux.dev; Simon Horman
> <simon.horman@...igine.com>; Alexandre Torgue
> <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>; Giuseppe Cavallaro
> <peppe.cavallaro@...com>; Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
> <nobuhiro1.iwamatsu@...hiba.co.jp>; Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>;
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> <jbrunet@...libre.com>; Bartosz Golaszewski
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> Bhupesh Sharma <bhupesh.sharma@...aro.org>; Martin Blumenstingl
> <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>; Revanth Kumar Uppala
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> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v3 net 1/2] net: stmmac: add new mode parameter
> for fix_mac_speed
> 
> On 31.07.2023 11:19:28, Shenwei Wang wrote:
> > A mode parameter has been added to the callback function of
> > fix_mac_speed to indicate the physical layer type.
> >
> > The mode can be one the following:
> > 	MLO_AN_PHY	- Conventional PHY
> > 	MLO_AN_FIXED	- Fixed-link mode
> > 	MLO_AN_INBAND	- In-band protocol
> >
> > Also use short version of 'uint' to replace the 'unsigned int' in the
> > function definitions.
> 
> There are not many users of 'uint' in the kernel and it's not used in the stmmac
> driver so far. From my point of view I would not introduce it and stick to the
> standard 'unsigned int'.
> 

Using 'uint' makes the code look cleaner because adding one extra parameter may cause some function 
declarations to span multiple lines.  This change keeps function declarations compact on a single line.

Thanks,
Shenwei

> Just my 2 cent,
> Marc
> 
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