[PATCH 04/10] net: stmmac: sunxi platfrom extensions for GMAC in Allwinner A20 SoC's
Maxime Ripard
maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Fri Dec 13 05:38:22 EST 2013
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 06:31:43PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Maxime Ripard
> <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 02:45:08PM +0000, srinivas kandagatla wrote:
> >> >>> 1. .tx_coe
> >> >>> This is not exported in the DT bindings.
> >> >>> Looking at stmmac code, not setting this seems to disable all
> >> >>> checksum offloading.
> >> >>
> >> >> Why cant this go via DT as well?
> >> >
> >> > If you and Giuseppe are OK with this, why not?
> >> Am Ok with it.
> >
> > Please note that I'm opposed to this until someone explain why putting
> > it in the DT is relevant (and not just convenient).
>
> Checksum offloading is an optional feature[1], implemented starting
> from version 3.20a. It is not tied to a specific IP version. As such,
> using a "snps,dwmac-<version>" compatible isn't a good fit here.
No, but we're not in such case. Since we have a compatible of our own,
we can derive it from that. Putting a property in the DT would only be
redundant.
> stmmac does auto-detection for optional features on MAC version > 3.50a.
> This is what Srinivas was referring to.
>
> Unfortunately, our MAC is < 3.50a. No auto-detection. We could add a
> "snps,dwmac-tx-coe" compatible for this, or the seperate DT property.
>
> The other way would be to pass the flags in the initial .data with the
> SoC specific compatible. Other SoCs with the same feature won't be
> able to reuse the same compatible though.
Which is already pretty much the case, since we have to deal with
Allwinner specific code and features.
A new compatible is cheap to maintain, a new property is not.
Maxime
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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
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