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Message-ID: <aXiqM+rYK/QCy6DW@oss.qualcomm.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:36:11 +0530
From: Mohd Ayaan Anwar <mohd.anwar@....qualcomm.com>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
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>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-phy@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
        Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
        Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
        Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 01/14] net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: remove
 mac_base

On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 09:53:23AM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> In commit 9b443e58a896 ("net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: remove MAC_CTRL_REG
> modification"), ethqos->mac_base is only written, never read. Let's
> remove it.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-qcom-ethqos.c | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-qcom-ethqos.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-qcom-ethqos.c
> index 0826a7bd32ff..869f924f3cde 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-qcom-ethqos.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-qcom-ethqos.c
> @@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ struct ethqos_emac_driver_data {
>  struct qcom_ethqos {
>  	struct platform_device *pdev;
>  	void __iomem *rgmii_base;
> -	void __iomem *mac_base;
>  	int (*configure_func)(struct qcom_ethqos *ethqos, int speed);
>  
>  	unsigned int link_clk_rate;
> @@ -772,8 +771,6 @@ static int qcom_ethqos_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  		return dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(ethqos->rgmii_base),
>  				     "Failed to map rgmii resource\n");
>  
> -	ethqos->mac_base = stmmac_res.addr;
> -
>  	data = of_device_get_match_data(dev);
>  	ethqos->por = data->por;
>  	ethqos->num_por = data->num_por;
> -- 
> 2.47.3
> 

Validated this patch on the QCS9100 Ride R3 board, so:

Tested-by: Mohd Ayaan Anwar <mohd.anwar@....qualcomm.com>