RE: [PATCH] net: sxgbe: Added tail point update

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Francois Romieu wrote :
> Byungho An <bh74.an@xxxxxxxxxxx> :
> > Florian Fainelli wrote:
> [...]
> > > I think that at some point you should revisit your abstraction, all
> > > the patches that I see do take a void __iomem * argument as the first
> > > function argument, you should probably use your driver private context
> > > here. The day you support a different version of the hardware, there
> > > might be other differences that need to be taken care of.
> > >
> > I agree with you, it would be more robust for different version of the
> hardware and make simple function argument.
> > But most functions of this driver deal with read/write register using
> ioaddr.
> 
> It does not imply that they should urge on ioaddr.
> 
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c gets it right and there is no reason
> why sxgbe should be different.
> 
I fully understood.

> > As of now I think it is enough but I'll consider it later.
> 
> In the meantime:
> 1) more use-once function pointers are added
> 2) their parameter list keeps growing
> 
> Please reconsider sooner than later.
I'll revisit above things sooner (after this patch set).
Thanks.

> 
> --
> Ueimor

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