Re: net: stmmac glue layer for Amlogic Meson SoCs

[Beniamino Galvani <b.galvani@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 08:16:18AM +0200, Giuseppe CAVALLARO wrote:
> On 9/20/2014 3:29 PM, Beniamino Galvani wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >the Ethernet controller available in Amlogic Meson6 and Meson8 SoCs is
> >a Synopsys DesignWare MAC IP core, already supported by the stmmac
> >driver.
> >
> >These patches add a glue layer to the driver for the platform-specific
> >settings required by the Amlogic variant.
> >
> >This has been tested on a Amlogic S802 device with the initial Meson
> >support submitted by Carlo Caione [1].
> 
> patches look fine just a warning with checkpatch as shown below then
> 
> Acked-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
> 
> 
> [cavagiu@lxmcdt5 net.git]$ git-format-patch -2
> 0001-net-stmmac-add-Amlogic-Meson-glue-layer.patch
> 0002-net-stmmac-meson-document-device-tree-bindings.patch
> [cavagiu@lxmcdt5 net.git]$ !./
> ./scripts/checkpatch.pl 000*
> WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need updating?
> #57:
> new file mode 100644
> 
> WARNING: DT compatible string vendor "amlogic" appears un-documented
> -- check ./Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
> #152: FILE: drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c:34:
> +	{ .compatible = "amlogic,meson6-dwmac", .data = &meson6_dwmac_data},

Hi Giuseppe,

thanks for the review. The amlogic vendor prefix is documented as part
of the initial Meson support in the series reported in the cover
letter.

Beniamino

> 
> total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 0 checks, 108 lines checked
> 
> 0001-net-stmmac-add-Amlogic-Meson-glue-layer.patch has style
> problems, please review.
> 
> If any of these errors are false positives, please report
> them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
> WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need updating?
> #17:
> new file mode 100644
> 
> total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 25 lines checked
> 
> 0002-net-stmmac-meson-document-device-tree-bindings.patch has style
> problems, please review.
> 
> If any of these errors are false positives, please report
> them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
> 
> >
> >[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/612000/
> >
> >Beniamino Galvani (2):
> >   net: stmmac: add Amlogic Meson glue layer
> >   net: stmmac: meson: document device tree bindings
> >
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/net/meson-dwmac.txt        | 25 ++++++++
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig        | 10 ++++
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Makefile       |  1 +
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-meson.c  | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac.h       |  3 +
> >  .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c  |  3 +
> >  6 files changed, 109 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/meson-dwmac.txt
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-meson.c
> >
>