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

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Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 14:39:22 +0300
From: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>
To: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...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 01:24:29PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, creating sometimes overcomplicated log messages is my eternal
problem.) Ok. I'll split it up.

> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>
> > ---
> 
> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

Thanks.

-Serge(y)