netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] net: stmmac: hwif.c cleanups

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Message-ID: <aQFYdRZV9CQVuqFu@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:57:41 +0000
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
	Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] net: stmmac: hwif.c cleanups

On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 04:42:57PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:48:23 +0100 Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > This series cleans up hwif.c:
> > 
> > - move the reading of the version information out of stmmac_hwif_init()
> >   into its own function, stmmac_get_version(), storing the result in a
> >   new struct.
> > 
> > - simplify stmmac_get_version().
> > 
> > - read the version register once, passing it to stmmac_get_id() and
> >   stmmac_get_dev_id().
> > 
> > - move stmmac_get_id() and stmmac_get_dev_id() into
> >   stmmac_get_version()
> > 
> > - define version register fields and use FIELD_GET() to decode
> > 
> > - start tackling the big loop in stmmac_hwif_init() - provide a
> >   function, stmmac_hwif_find(), which looks up the hwif entry, thus
> >   making a much smaller loop, which improves readability of this code.
> > 
> > - change the use of '^' to '!=' when comparing the dev_id, which is
> >   what is really meant here.
> > 
> > - reorganise the test after calling stmmac_hwif_init() so that we
> >   handle the error case in the indented code, and the success case
> >   with no indent, which is the classical arrangement.
> 
> This one needs a respin (patch 6 vs your IRQ masking changes?).

Ah, I see it, rebase can cope with that, but not application. Bah.
Another week of waiting for it to be applied. :(

I'm going to start sending larger patch series...

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