Thread (16 messages) 16 messages, 5 authors, 2016-02-23

Re: [PATCH 1/4] net: ethernet: dwmac: add Ethernet glue logic for stm32 chip

From: Joachim Eastwood <hidden>
Date: 2016-02-22 21:52:21
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, lkml

On 22 February 2016 at 15:50, Alexandre Torgue
[off-list ref] wrote:
2016-02-13 14:48 GMT+01:00 Joachim  Eastwood [off-list ref]:
quoted
On 3 February 2016 at 15:54, Alexandre TORGUE
[off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
+       plat_dat->bsp_priv = dwmac;
+       plat_dat->init = stm32_dwmac_init;
+       plat_dat->exit = stm32_dwmac_exit;
Instead of using these callbacks could you rather implement the PM
callbacks directly in this driver?
I don't think it should add much code and it will make it look more
like standard driver. This will also give you some more control and
flexibility in your code.
I prefer to keep the code as it is. Glue layer is directly linked to
stmmac driver and I don't want to brake the link between the glue and
the stmmac driver.
What do you mean by break the link?

There has been numerous of patch sets to make the stmmac "glue"
drivers into more standard platform drivers.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=143159850631093&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=143708560009851&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=143812136600541&w=2

Do you see any advantage by using the init and exit hooks in your
driver instead of using the standard driver PM callbacks and remove
function?
The only "cost" I see is slightly more boilerplate code. But since you
already have init/exit functions you could easily make them into PM
resume/suspend so I doubt there would be much increase in code size.

One other thing;
Do you need to have the PHY mode setup code in the init function which
is called each time on resume?
If you could move it to probe you could drop the interface priv data
member and use plat_dat->interface as stmmac_probe_config_dt() has
already done of_get_phy_mode().


regards,
Joachim Eastwood
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