[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 07/10] net: Rename and cleanup sunxi (Allwinner) emac driver

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 07/23/2014 08:12 PM, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> On Mon,  9 Jun 2014 11:36:59 +0200
> Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
>>
>> There have been 3 versions of the sunxi_emac support patch during its
>> development. Somehow version 2 ended up in upstream u-boot where as
>> the u-boot-sunxi git repo got version 3.
>>
>> This bumps the version in upstream u-boot to version 3 of the patch:
>> - Initialize MII clock earlier so mii access to allow independent use
>> - Name change from WEMAC to EMAC to match mainline kernel & chip manual
>> - Cosmetic code cleanup
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik at henriknordstrom.net>
>> Signed-off-by: Oliver Schinagl <oliver at schinagl.nl>
>> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
>> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk>
>
> Shouldn't the cosmetic and functional changes be normally split into
> separate patches? Indeed, it looks like the move of
>
> +       /* Set MII clock */
> +       clrsetbits_le32(&regs->mac_mcfg, 0xf << 2, 0xd << 2);
>
> is the only functional change in this rather large patch.
>
> And could you please elaborate on
>
>> - Initialize MII clock earlier so mii access to allow independent use
>
> was this causing any user visible problems?

I'm not the author if the patch, so you will need to ask Stefan. Note though
that the code after this patch is the code which we've been using in the
linux-sunxi-u-boot for as long as I can remember, and the code which went
upstream was never enabled / used as is.

Regards,

Hans