[PATCH net-next 4/6] net: bcmgenet: remove eee_enabled/eee_active in bcmgenet_get_eee()

Russell King (Oracle) linux at armlinux.org.uk
Sun Feb 4 04:02:28 PST 2024


On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 05:21:57PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/2/2024 5:17 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 2/2/2024 1:34 AM, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > > bcmgenet_get_eee() sets edata->eee_active and edata->eee_enabled from
> > > its own copy, and then calls phy_ethtool_get_eee() which in turn will
> > > call genphy_c45_ethtool_get_eee().
> > > 
> > > genphy_c45_ethtool_get_eee() will overwrite eee_enabled and eee_active
> > > with its own interpretation from the PHYs settings and negotiation
> > > result.
> > > 
> > > Therefore, setting these members in bcmgenet_get_eee() is redundant,
> > > and can be removed. This also makes priv->eee.eee_active unnecessary,
> > > so remove this and use a local variable where appropriate.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli at broadcom.com>
> > 
> > Is not there an opportunity for no longer overriding eee_enabled as well
> > since genphy_c45_ethtool_get_eee() will set that variable too?
> 
> Scratch that comment, you are doing it in the getter.

Also, priv->eee.eee_enabled is used in bcmmii.c, so we can't get rid of
it in the setter.

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