netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: pcs: Add PCS driver for Qualcomm IPQ9574 SoC

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Message-ID: <9b2c6c35-cb72-4680-a59e-8515a3995b53@quicinc.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 20:12:54 +0800
From: Lei Wei <quic_leiwei@...cinc.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: pcs: Add PCS driver for Qualcomm
 IPQ9574 SoC



On 11/4/2024 9:43 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 07:14:59PM +0800, Lei Wei wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11/1/2024 9:00 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>>> +config PCS_QCOM_IPQ
>>>> +	tristate "Qualcomm IPQ PCS"
>>>
>>> Will Qualcomm only ever have one PCS driver?
>>>
>>> You probably want a more specific name so that when the next PCS
>>> driver comes along, you have a reasonable consistent naming scheme.
>>>
>>
>> We expect one PCS driver to support the 'IPQ' family of Qualcomm processors.
>> While we are initially adding support for IPQ9574 SoC, this driver will be
>> easily extendable later to other SoC in the IPQ family such as IPQ5332,
>> IPQ5424 and others. Therefore we used the name with suffix '_IPQ'. Hope it
>> is fine.
> 
> So are you saying after IPQ comes IPR? And then IPS? In order to have
> a new PCS design, Marketing will allow you to throw away the whole IPQ
> branding?
> 

OK. We will convert the name to make it more specific to the 
architecture. 'PCS_QCOM_IPQ9574' can be used to signify this type of PCS 
within IPQ SoC family. The driver will be re-used later for other IPQ 
SoC using same architecture, with minimal driver extensions.

> 	Andrew