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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
	Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>,
	syadagir@codeaurora.org, mjavid@codeaurora.org,
	evgreen@chromium.org, Ben Chan <benchan@google.com>,
	Eric Caruso <ejcaruso@google.com>,
	abhishek.esse@gmail.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/18] soc: qcom: ipa: IPA network device and microcontroller
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 10:21:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a0WW6B3fASNB9th_ncPine7X0OfhJD139yUC31UQiGQdQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190512012508.10608-14-elder@linaro.org>

On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 3:25 AM Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> This patch includes the code that implements a Linux network device,
> using one TX and one RX IPA endpoint.  It is used to implement the
> network device representing the modem and its connection to wireless
> networks.  There are only a few things that are really modem-specific
> though, and they aren't clearly called out here.  Such distinctions
> will be made clearer if we wish to support a network device for
> anything other than the modem.

This does not seem to do much at all, as far as I can see it's a fairly
small abstraction between the linux netdev layer and the actual
implementation. Could you just merge this file into whichever file
it interacts with most closely, and open-code the wrappers there?

      Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-15  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-12  1:24 [PATCH 00/18] net: introduce Qualcomm IPA driver Alex Elder
2019-05-12  1:24 ` [PATCH 01/18] bitfield.h: add FIELD_MAX() and field_max() Alex Elder
2019-05-12  6:33   ` Kalle Valo
2019-05-12 12:18     ` Alex Elder
2019-05-12 19:30       ` Johannes Berg
2019-05-12  1:24 ` [PATCH 02/18] soc: qcom: create "include/soc/qcom/rmnet.h" Alex Elder
2019-05-12  2:34   ` Joe Perches
2019-05-12 12:15     ` Alex Elder
2019-05-15  6:59   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-15 12:03     ` Alex Elder
2019-05-16  1:09       ` Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
2019-05-17 17:27         ` Alex Elder
2019-05-17 18:08           ` Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
2019-05-19 17:37             ` Alex Elder
2019-05-12  1:24 ` [PATCH 03/18] dt-bindings: soc: qcom: add IPA bindings Alex Elder
2019-05-15  7:03   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-15 12:04     ` Alex Elder
2019-05-15 16:50       ` Rob Herring
2019-05-15 17:05         ` Alex Elder
2019-05-12  1:24 ` [PATCH 04/18] soc: qcom: ipa: main code Alex Elder
2019-05-12  1:24 ` [PATCH 05/18] soc: qcom: ipa: configuration data Alex Elder
2019-05-12  1:24 ` [PATCH 06/18] soc: qcom: ipa: clocking, interrupts, and memory Alex Elder
2019-05-12  1:24 ` [PATCH 07/18] soc: qcom: ipa: GSI headers Alex Elder
2019-05-12  1:24 ` [PATCH 08/18] soc: qcom: ipa: the generic software interface Alex Elder
2019-05-15  7:21   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-15 12:13     ` Alex Elder
2019-05-15 12:40       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-15 10:47   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-15 13:32     ` Alex Elder
2019-05-15 19:37   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-12  1:24 ` [PATCH 09/18] soc: qcom: ipa: GSI transactions Alex Elder
2019-05-15  7:34   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-15 12:25     ` Alex Elder
2019-05-15 20:50       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-17 18:08     ` Alex Elder
2019-05-17 18:33       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-17 18:44         ` Alex Elder
2019-05-19 17:11           ` Alex Elder
2019-05-20  9:25             ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-20 12:50               ` Alex Elder
2019-05-20 14:43                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-20 14:44                   ` Alex Elder
2019-05-20 16:34                     ` Evan Green
2019-05-20 16:50                       ` Alex Elder
2019-05-20 17:36                         ` Evan Green
2019-05-12  1:25 ` [PATCH 10/18] soc: qcom: ipa: IPA interface to GSI Alex Elder
2019-05-12  1:25 ` [PATCH 11/18] soc: qcom: ipa: IPA endpoints Alex Elder
2019-05-12  1:25 ` [PATCH 12/18] soc: qcom: ipa: immediate commands Alex Elder
2019-05-15  8:16   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-15 12:35     ` Alex Elder
2019-05-18  0:34       ` Alex Elder
2019-05-20 14:50         ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-20 14:55           ` Alex Elder
2019-05-20 17:35             ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-12  1:25 ` [PATCH 13/18] soc: qcom: ipa: IPA network device and microcontroller Alex Elder
2019-05-15  8:21   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2019-05-15 12:46     ` Alex Elder
2019-05-12  1:25 ` [PATCH 14/18] soc: qcom: ipa: AP/modem communications Alex Elder
2019-05-12  1:25 ` [PATCH 15/18] soc: qcom: ipa: support build of IPA code Alex Elder
2019-05-12  1:25 ` [PATCH 16/18] MAINTAINERS: add entry for the Qualcomm IPA driver Alex Elder
2019-05-12  1:25 ` [PATCH 17/18] arm64: dts: sdm845: add IPA information Alex Elder
2019-05-12  1:25 ` [PATCH 18/18] arm64: defconfig: enable build of IPA code Alex Elder
2019-05-15  8:23   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-15 12:49     ` Alex Elder
2019-05-15 12:37 ` [PATCH 00/18] net: introduce Qualcomm IPA driver Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-15 12:52   ` Alex Elder

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