[PATCH net 3/7] net: dsa: mt7530: do not run mt7530_setup_port5() if port 5 is disabled

Arınç ÜNAL arinc.unal at arinc9.com
Mon Mar 27 14:46:04 PDT 2023


On 27.03.2023 21:56, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 05:08:14PM +0300, arinc9.unal at gmail.com wrote:
>> From: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal at arinc9.com>
>>
>> There's no need to run all the code on mt7530_setup_port5() if port 5 is
>> disabled. Run mt7530_setup_port5() if priv->p5_intf_sel is not P5_DISABLED
>> and remove the P5_DISABLED case from mt7530_setup_port5().
>>
>> Stop initialising the interface variable as the remaining cases will always
>> call mt7530_setup_port5() with it initialised.
>>
>> Fixes: 38f790a80560 ("net: dsa: mt7530: Add support for port 5")
>> Tested-by: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal at arinc9.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal at arinc9.com>
>> ---
> 
> Again, not sure what is the problem, and how this solution addresses
> that problem. I see Fixes tags for all patches, but I don't understand
> what they fix, what didn't work before that works now?

It really depends on what you call working. Does this patch fix any 
feature of the switch that didn't work before? No.

Does it fix a bad logic introduced with the said commit? Yes.

Arınç



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