Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 00/12] net: stmmac: Clean-up and tune-up

From: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
To: Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@synopsys.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com>,
	Vitor Soares <Vitor.Soares@synopsys.com>,
	Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>,
	Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>,
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 00/12] net: stmmac: Clean-up and tune-up
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 16:28:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180518142837.GC11284@Red> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a42375f2-6521-f959-75ea-2a5be1680be9@synopsys.com>

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 03:23:44PM +0100, Jose Abreu wrote:
> Hi Corentin,
> 
> On 18-05-2018 15:12, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 02:55:57PM +0100, Jose Abreu wrote:
> >> This targets to uniformize the handling of the different GMAC versions in
> >> stmmac_main.c file and also tune-up the HW.
> >>
> >> Currently there are some if/else conditions in the main source file which
> >> calls different callbacks depending on the ID of GMAC.
> >>
> >> With the introducion of a generic HW interface handling which automatically
> >> selects the GMAC callbacks to be used, it is now unpleasant to see if
> >> conditions in the main code because this should be completely agnostic of the
> >> GMAC version.
> >>
> >> This series removes most of these conditions. There are some if conditions
> >> that remain untouched but the callbacks handling are now uniformized.
> >>
> >> Tested in GMAC5, hope I didn't break any previous versions.
> >>
> >> Please check [1] for performance analisys of patches 3-12.
> >>
> >> ---
> >> David,
> >>
> >> This will probably generate a merge conflict with [2] (which was not merged
> >> yet). I'm waiting for Corentin input and then, if this series is merged
> >> before, I will rebase [2]. Or the other way around if you prefer :D
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> >> Cc: Joao Pinto <jpinto@synopsys.com>
> >> Cc: Vitor Soares <soares@synopsys.com>
> >> Cc: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
> >> Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
> >>
> >> [1] https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__marc.info_-3Fl-3Dlinux-2Dnetdev-26m-3D152656352607905-26w-3D2&d=DwIBAg&c=DPL6_X_6JkXFx7AXWqB0tg&r=WHDsc6kcWAl4i96Vm5hJ_19IJiuxx_p_Rzo2g-uHDKw&m=a7bgrSQpisaMSa5fT-je94smZ_TM7QTxNFKqkvI5Nns&s=Tr23Xj_UCR_PaJp8AYiy18hfhbILnsaCsKDT5_4m2z4&e=
> >> [2] https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__patchwork.ozlabs.org_patch_915286_&d=DwIBAg&c=DPL6_X_6JkXFx7AXWqB0tg&r=WHDsc6kcWAl4i96Vm5hJ_19IJiuxx_p_Rzo2g-uHDKw&m=a7bgrSQpisaMSa5fT-je94smZ_TM7QTxNFKqkvI5Nns&s=Q0SV-ZR35zIJWjiaLNXqlOWchppQ2CsO-Fh-BFCjCB8&e=
> >>
> >> Jose Abreu (12):
> >>   net: stmmac: Enable OSP for GMAC4
> >>   net: stmmac: Do not keep rearming the coalesce timer in stmmac_xmit
> >>   net: stmmac: Let descriptor code set skbuff address
> >>   net: stmmac: Let descriptor code clear the descriptor
> >>   net: stmmac: Uniformize the use of dma_{rx/tx}_mode callbacks
> >>   net: stmmac: Remove uneeded checks for GMAC version
> >>   net: stmmac: Move PTP and MMC base address calculation to hwif.c
> >>   net: stmmac: Uniformize the use of dma_init_* callbacks
> >>   net: stmmac: Remove uneeded check for GMAC version in stmmac_xmit
> >>   net: stmmac: Uniformize set_rx_owner()
> >>   net: stmmac: Let descriptor code get skbuff address
> >>   net: stmmac: Remove if condition by taking advantage of hwif return
> >>     code
> >>
> >>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sun8i.c  |   82 +++++---
> >>  .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac1000_dma.c    |   92 ++++++----
> >>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac100_dma.c |   35 +++--
> >>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_descs.c |   34 +++-
> >>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_dma.c   |    7 +-
> >>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac4_dma.h   |    1 -
> >>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/enh_desc.c     |   20 ++-
> >>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/hwif.c         |   34 ++++
> >>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/hwif.h         |   27 ++-
> >>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/norm_desc.c    |   20 ++-
> >>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h       |    1 +
> >>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c  |  198 +++++++-------------
> >>  12 files changed, 323 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)
> >>
> >>
> > Hello
> >
> > You didnt have put in CC linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org as required by get_maintener.pl letting more people to see this series.
> > Since this series touch dwmac-sun8i.c you should have also added Chen-Yu Tsai/Maxime Ripard (as also asked by get_maintainer).
> 
> Usually I just cc according to MAINTAINERS file but thanks for
> noticing. Added in cc now.
> 

./scripts/get_maintainer.pl does this for you (and it use MAINTAINERS).
You have to use it at least, since it handle regex that could be easily unseen like for dwmac-sun8i.