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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 4/4] drivers: net: Add APM X-Gene SoC ethernet driver support.
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Hi,

Please find my response inline.

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk> wrote:
> On 12/04/14 04:06, Iyappan Subramanian wrote:
>>
>> This patch adds network driver for APM X-Gene SoC ethernet.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Iyappan Subramanian <isubramanian@apm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ravi Patel <rapatel@apm.com>
>
>
> [snip]
>
>
>> +{
>> + struct xgene_enet_pdata *pdata = netdev_priv(ndev);
>> + struct phy_device *phydev;
>> + unsigned char phy_id[MII_BUS_ID_SIZE+3];
>> + int ret = 0;
>> +
>> + phydev = phy_find_first(pdata->mdio_bus);
>> + if (!phydev) {
>> + netdev_info(ndev, "no PHY found\n");
>> + ret = -1;
>> + goto out;
>> + }
>> +
>> + /* attach the mac to the phy */
>> + snprintf(phy_id, sizeof(phy_id), PHY_ID_FMT, pdata->mdio_bus->id,
>> + pdata->phy_addr);
>> + phydev = phy_connect(ndev, phy_id,
>> + &xgene_enet_mdio_link_change,
>> pdata->phy_mode);
>> + if (IS_ERR(phydev)) {
>> + netdev_err(ndev, "Could not attach to PHY\n");
>> + ret = PTR_ERR(phydev);
>> + phydev = NULL;
>> + goto out;
>> + }
>> +
>
>
> You should be using of_phy_connect or similar so that the
> necessary PHY<>OF data is properly initialised
>

I will use of_phy_connect function to connect to PHY.

>
>> + netdev_info(ndev, "phy_id=0x%08x phy_drv=\"%s\"",
>> + phydev->phy_id, phydev->drv->name);
>> +out:
>> + pdata->phy_link = 0;
>> + pdata->phy_speed = 0;
>> + pdata->phy_dev = phydev;
>> +
>> + return ret;
>> +}
>> +
>
>
>
> [snip]
>
>
>> +struct xgene_enet_desc {
>> + u64 m0;
>> + u64 m1;
>> + u64 m2;
>> + u64 m3;
>> +};
>> +
>> +struct xgene_enet_desc16 {
>> + u64 m0;
>> + u64 m1;
>> +};
>> +
>> +static inline void xgene_enet_cpu_to_le64(struct xgene_enet_desc *desc,
>> + int count)
>> +{
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
>> + int i;
>> +
>> + for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
>> + ((u64 *)desc)[i] = cpu_to_le64(((u64 *)desc)[i]);
>> +#endif
>> +}
>> +
>> +static inline void xgene_enet_le64_to_cpu(struct xgene_enet_desc *desc,
>> + int count)
>> +{
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
>> + int i;
>> +
>> + for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
>> + ((u64 *)desc)[i] = le64_to_cpu(((u64 *)desc)[i]);
>> +#endif
>> +}
>> +
>> +static inline void xgene_enet_desc16_to_le64(struct xgene_enet_desc
>> *desc)
>> +{
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
>> + ((u64 *)desc)[1] = cpu_to_le64(((u64 *)desc)[1]);
>> +#endif
>> +}
>> +
>> +static inline void xgene_enet_le64_to_desc16(struct xgene_enet_desc
>> *desc)
>> +{
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
>> + ((u64 *)desc)[1] = le64_to_cpu(((u64 *)desc)[1]);
>> +#endif
>> +}
>
>
> With this do you not risk confusing the hardware by swapping the
> format of the descriptors?
>
> Why not use xxx_to_cpu() and cpu_to_xxx() functions when reading or
> writing the descriptors? It would also remove a lot of the #ifdef in
> this code.

Our hardware expects descriptor in the little endian format. I will remove the
#ifdef.

>
> --
> Ben Dooks http://www.codethink.co.uk/
> Senior Engineer Codethink - Providing Genius


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