Hi Serge, On Fri, 3 May 2024, Serge Semin wrote: > > > +void stmmac_pcs_clean(struct stmmac_priv *priv) > > Ideally it would have been great to have the entire driver fixed to > accept the stmmac_priv pointer as the functions argument. But this > would be too tiresome. Anyway seeing the PCS-setup protagonist method > has the net_device pointer passed I would implement the same prototype > for the antagonist even though it would require an additional local > variable. That will make the MDIO and PCS local interface-functions > looking alike and as if unified. That is the reason of why I made > stmmac_xpcs_clean() accepting the net_device pointer. > > Alternatively both stmmac_pcs_setup() and stmmac_pcs_clean() could be > converted to just accepting a pointer to the stmmac_priv instance. I think that adapting stmmac_pcs_clean() to take a net_device struct would be more appropriate since it's the simpler of the two methods. I'll implement this in the next version. Thanks, -- Romain Gantois, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com