[PATCH 2/3] net: ethernet: bgmac: Make IDM register space optional

Abhishek Shah abhishek.shah at broadcom.com
Mon Jul 17 11:37:35 PDT 2017


Hi Jon,

> This also will need to be added to
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac-bcma.c.  Otherwise, the driver
> will no longer work for those platforms.  Since this was already
> accepted, please push out a fix ASAP.
>
I do not see how the bcma driver [bgmac-bcma.c] will no longer work.
The whole idea behind introducing this  BGMAC_FEAT_IDM_MASK bit
was to keep bcma driver's functionality intact.

The BGMAC_FEAT_IDM_MASK bit is explicitly set by the bgmac-platform driver
and is unset inside the same if the idm register base is provided.

For BCMA driver case, I do not touch BGMAC_FEAT_IDM_MASK bit, i.e. it
is *not* set.
And if it is not set, each idm operation done in bgmac.c will take place.
Please explain if I am missing something here.


Regards,
Abhishek



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