# Re: \[PATCH 3/3\] net: stmmac: Add DWMAC glue layer for Renesas GBETH

- From: Lad, Prabhakar \<prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com\>
- Date: 2025-03-08 12:44:37 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2025/03/2963245
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2025/03/2952250/t.md

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Hi Geert,

Thank you for the review.

On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM Geert Uytterhoeven [ref] wrote:
>
> Hi Prabhakar,
>
> On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 at 19:18, Prabhakar [ref] wrote:
> > From: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>
> >
> > Renesas RZ/V2H(P) SoC is equipped with Synopsys DesignWare Ethernet
> > Quality-of-Service IP block version 5.20. This commit adds DWMAC glue
> > layer for the Renesas GBETH found on the RZ/V2H(P) SoC.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>
>
> Thanks for your patch!
>
> A few early comments...
>
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig
> > @@ -131,6 +131,17 @@ config DWMAC_QCOM_ETHQOS
> >           This selects the Qualcomm ETHQOS glue layer support for the
> >           stmmac device driver.
> >
> > +config DWMAC_RENESAS_GBETH
> > +       tristate "Renesas RZ/V2H(P) GBETH support"
> > +       default ARCH_RENESAS
>
> This auto-enables DWMAC_RENESAS_GBETH when building a kernel for e.g
> RZ/N1D, which uses stmmac with DWMAC_RZN1.  So I'll have to disable
> this explicitly in shmobile_defconfig.  This is not a big issue,
> we already have similar constructs (DRM_RCAR_USE_MIPI_DSI defaults to
> DRM_RCAR_DU, but is not used on R-Car Gen1/2).
>
I added this based on the recent comments received while add WDT
support for RZ/G3E.

> > +       depends on OF && (ARCH_RENESAS || COMPILE_TEST)
> > +       help
> > +         Support for Gigabit Ethernet Interface (GBETH) on Renesas
> > +         RZ/V2H(P) SoCs.
> > +
> > +         This selects the Renesas RZ/V2H(P) Soc specific glue layer support
> > +         for the stmmac device driver.
> > +
> >  config DWMAC_ROCKCHIP
> >         tristate "Rockchip dwmac support"
> >         default ARCH_ROCKCHIP
>
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-renesas-gbeth.c
>
> > +static const char *const renesas_gbeth_clks[] __initconst = {
>
> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference:
> renesas_gbeth_probe+0x1e0 (section: .text) -> renesas_gbeth_clks
> (section: .init.rodata)
>
> Please drop the __initconst.
>
Ok, I will drop that.

Cheers,
Prabhakar
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