[PATCH v9 3/3] net: ax88796c: ASIX AX88796C SPI Ethernet Adapter Driver

Lukasz Stelmach l.stelmach at samsung.com
Thu Dec 17 15:11:10 EST 2020


It was <2020-12-17 czw 11:08>, when Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:53:30 +0100 Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
>> ASIX AX88796[1] is a versatile ethernet adapter chip, that can be
>> connected to a CPU with a 8/16-bit bus or with an SPI. This driver
>> supports SPI connection.
>> 
>> The driver has been ported from the vendor kernel for ARTIK5[2]
>> boards. Several changes were made to adapt it to the current kernel
>> which include:
>> 
>> + updated DT configuration,
>> + clock configuration moved to DT,
>> + new timer, ethtool and gpio APIs,
>> + dev_* instead of pr_* and custom printk() wrappers,
>> + removed awkward vendor power managemtn.
>> + introduced ethtool tunable to control SPI compression
>> 

[...]

>> 
>> The other ax88796 driver is for NE2000 compatible AX88796L chip. These
>> chips are not compatible. Hence, two separate drivers are required.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach at samsung.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/asix/ax88796c_main.c: In function ‘ax88796c_tx_fixup’:
> drivers/net/ethernet/asix/ax88796c_main.c:248:6: warning: variable ‘tol_len’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>   248 |  u16 tol_len, pkt_len;
>       |      ^~~~~~~

Done. Thanks.

-- 
Łukasz Stelmach
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics
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