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[PATCH net-next] net: stmicro: dwmac4 comments enhancement

From: Joao Pinto <hidden>
Date: 2017-01-23 15:56:39
Subsystem: networking drivers, stmmac ethernet driver, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Maxime Chevallier, Linus Torvalds

This patch adds clarification about the HW Controller that the dwmac4 driver
package is targeting.

Signed-off-by: Joao Pinto <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_core.c  | 4 ++--
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_descs.c | 4 ++--
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_descs.h | 2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_dma.c   | 4 ++--
 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_core.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_core.c
index 202216c..d893da9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_core.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
- * This is the driver for the GMAC on-chip Ethernet controller for ST SoCs.
- * DWC Ether MAC version 4.00  has been used for developing this code.
+ * This is the driver for the DesignWare Ethernet QoS Controller.
+ * For historical reasons it started in 4.x version.
  *
  * This only implements the mac core functions for this chip.
  *
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_descs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_descs.c
index 8816515..1f94bd6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_descs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_descs.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
- * This contains the functions to handle the descriptors for DesignWare databook
- * 4.xx.
+ * This contains the functions to handle the descriptors for the DesignWare
+ * Ethernet QoS Controller. For historical reasons it started in 4.x version.
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2015  STMicroelectronics Ltd
  *
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_descs.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_descs.h
index 9736c50..cfeb08a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_descs.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_descs.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * Header File to describe the DMA descriptors and related definitions specific
- * for DesignWare databook 4.xx.
+ * for the DesignWare Ethernet QoS Controller
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2015  STMicroelectronics Ltd
  *
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_dma.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_dma.c
index 377d1b4..301d01f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_dma.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_dma.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
- * This is the driver for the GMAC on-chip Ethernet controller for ST SoCs.
- * DWC Ether MAC version 4.xx  has been used for  developing this code.
+ * This is the driver for DesignWare Ethernet QoS Controller.
+ * For historical reasons it started in 4.x version.
  *
  * This contains the functions to handle the dma.
  *
-- 
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