On 4/24/24 12:37 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 6.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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> From: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> [ Upstream commit 4123c3fbf8632e5c553222bf1c10b3a3e0a8dc06 ]
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> The Rx ring can either be made up of normal or extended descriptors, not
> a mix of the two at the same time. Make this explicit by grouping the
> two variables in a rx_ring union.
>
> The extension of the storage for more than one queue of normal
> descriptors from a single to NUM_RX_QUEUE queues have no practical
> effect. But aids in making the code readable as the code that uses it
> already piggyback on other members of struct ravb_private that are
> arrays of max length NUM_RX_QUEUE, e.g. rx_desc_dma. This will also make
> further refactoring easier.
>
> While at it, rename the normal descriptor Rx ring to make it clear it's
> not strictly related to the GbEthernet E-MAC IP found in RZ/G2L, normal
> descriptors could be used on R-Car SoCs too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Paul Barker <paul.barker.ct@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Stable-dep-of: def52db470df ("net: ravb: Count packets instead of descriptors in R-Car RX path")
I still highly doubt that this patch is really necessary in -stable.
This patch shouldn't depend on it...
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
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MBR, Sergey
