Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Polling be gone on LAN95xx

[Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 02:37:15PM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 07:48:00AM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> > Do away with link status polling on LAN95XX USB Ethernet
> > and rely on interrupts instead, thereby reducing bus traffic,
> > CPU overhead and improving interface bringup latency.
> > 
> > The meat of the series is in patch [5/7].  The preceding and
> > following patches are various cleanups to prepare for and
> > adjust to interrupt-driven link state detection.
> 
> Tested-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
> 
> Tested on:
> - LAN9514 (RPi2)
> - LAN9512 (EVB)
> - LAN9500 (EVB)

Thanks a lot for testing, this helps greatly.

> On USB unplug i get some not usable kernel message, but it is not the
> show stopper for me:
> smsc95xx 1-1.4.1:1.0 eth1: Error updating MAC full duplex mode
> smsc95xx 1-1.4.1:1.0 eth1: hardware isn't capable of remote wakeup

Okay, I've amended patch [4/7] to silence the first of these messages
if the error is caused by hot-removal.

The second message isn't related to this series, I'll address that
separately at a later point in time.

Thanks,

Lukas