netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 01/16] net: pcs: xpcs: Drop sentinel entry from 2500basex ifaces list

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Message-ID: <20231205112429.bp6lpvj4klrfrrim@skbuf>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 13:24:29 +0200
From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
	Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>,
	Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com>,
	Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
	Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77@...il.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 01/16] net: pcs: xpcs: Drop sentinel entry from
 2500basex ifaces list

On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 01:35:22PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> There are currently two methods (xpcs_find_compat() and
> xpcs_get_interfaces()) defined in the driver which loop over the available
> interfaces. All of them rely on the xpcs_compat.num_interfaces field value
> to get the number of interfaces. That field is initialized with the
> ARRAY_SIZE(xpcs_*_interfaces) macro function call. Thus the interface
> arrays are supposed to be filled with actual interface IDs and there is no
> need in the dummy terminating ID placed at the end of the arrays. Let's
> drop the redundant PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_MAX entry from the
> xpcs_2500basex_interfaces list and the redundant
> PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_MAX-based conditional statement from the
> xpcs_get_interfaces() method then.

It would help the readability of the commit message if you would split
it into multiple paragraphs.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>