Re: [PATCH v1 00/26] net: dsa: microchip: stats64, fdb, error

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 06:35:39AM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 03:09:19PM -0800, Jacob Keller wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 11/28/2022 3:59 AM, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > > This patch series is a result of maintaining work on ksz8 part of
> > > microchip driver. It includes stats64 and fdb support. Error handling.
> > > Loopback fix and so on...
> > > 
> > > Oleksij Rempel (26):
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: add stats64 support for ksz8 series of switches
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8: ksz8_fdb_dump: fix port validation and VID
> > >      information
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8: ksz8_fdb_dump: fix not complete fdb
> > >      extraction
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8: ksz8_fdb_dump: fix time stamp extraction
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8: ksz8_fdb_dump: do not extract ghost entry
> > >      from empty table
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8863_smi: fix bulk access
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8_r_dyn_mac_table(): remove timestamp support
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: make ksz8_r_dyn_mac_table() static
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8_r_dyn_mac_table(): remove fid support
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8: refactor ksz8_fdb_dump()
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8: ksz8_fdb_dump: dump static MAC table
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8: move static mac table operations to a
> > >      separate functions
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8: add fdb_add/del support
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: KSZ88x3 fix loopback support
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8_r_dyn_mac_table(): move main part of the
> > >      code out of if statement
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8_r_dyn_mac_table(): use ret instead of rc
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8_r_dyn_mac_table(): ksz: do not return EAGAIN
> > >      on timeout
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8_r_dyn_mac_table(): return read/write error
> > >      if we got any
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8_r_dyn_mac_table(): use entries variable to
> > >      signal 0 entries
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: make ksz8_r_sta_mac_table() static
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8_r_sta_mac_table(): do not use error code for
> > >      empty entries
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8_r_sta_mac_table(): make use of error values
> > >      provided by read/write functions
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: make ksz8_w_sta_mac_table() static
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8_w_sta_mac_table(): make use of error values
> > >      provided by read/write functions
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: remove ksz_port:on variable
> > >    net: dsa: microchip: ksz8: do not force flow control by default
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > My understanding is that we typically limit series to 15 patches. Do you
> > have some justification for why this goes over 15 and can't reasonably be
> > split into two series?
> > 
> > At a glance it seems like a bunch of smaller cleanups.
> 
> The previous patch set got request to do more clean ups:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221124101458.3353902-1-o.rempel@pengutronix.de/
> 
> I need to show, there are already more patches in the queue.

There is some psychology involved here. I see 26 patches and decide i
need to allocate 30 minutes to this sometime, and put the review off
until later, without even looking at them. If i get 5 patches, i
probably just do it, knowing i will be finished pretty quickly. My
guess is, 5 patches a day for 5 days will be merged faster than 26
patches in one go.

     Andrew