[PATCH 3/4] net/macb: fix capabilities configuration

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com
Fri Mar 27 16:02:35 PDT 2015


Hi Nicolas,

On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 16:34:11 +0100
Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at atmel.com> wrote:

> Capabilities configuration by macb_configure_caps() was moved far too late by
> 421d9df0628b (net/macb: merge at91_ether driver into macb driver) which would
> lead to badly configured hardware.

Indeed, the macb_configure_caps function is called a bit too late,
but ...

> So, move this function to early probe and modify its prototype to re-gain its
> original behavior.
> DT data retrieval is also moved to simplify the probe code flow.

... I'm not happy with these changes.
I tried to keep  specific init steps of macb and at91_ether separated
and you're moving macb_configure_caps call (not required on at91_ether
HW) into macb_probe (the common probe part).

How about moving macb_configure_caps a bit earlier in the macb_init
function [1] ?

Best Regards,

Boris

[1]http://code.bulix.org/8gyi6b-88141

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