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Message-ID: <46qcylil2xr3qfajdurvggvvrg2eakezqlng5sivrwsr3urica@q5m3gopdqqoq>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 17:07:06 +0200
From: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, 
	pabeni@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 5/8] dpaa2-switch: do not clear any
 interrupts automatically

On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 03:48:22PM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 01:59:30PM +0200, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> > The DPSW object has multiple event sources multiplexed over the same
> > IRQ. The driver has the capability to configure only some of these
> > events to trigger the IRQ.
> > 
> > The dpsw_get_irq_status() can clear events automatically based on the
> > value stored in the 'status' variable passed to it. We don't want that
> > to happen because we could get into a situation when we are clearing
> > more events than we actually handled.
> > 
> > Just resort to manually clearing the events that we handled. Also, since
> > status is not used on the out path we remove its initialization to zero.
> > 
> > This change does not have a user-visible effect because the dpaa2-switch
> > driver enables and handles all the DPSW events which exist at the
> > moment.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>
> > ---
> > Changes in v3:
> > - mention that the change does not have a user visible impact
> > Changes in v2:
> > - add a bit more info in the commit message
> 
> Thanks for these updates too.
> 
No problem!


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