Re: [PATCH iwl-next v1 2/3] ice: Add helper function ice_is_generic_mac

[Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 08:29:18PM +0100, Grzegorz Nitka wrote:
> E800 series devices have a couple of quirks:
> 1. Sideband control queues are not supported
> 2. The registers that the driver needs to program for the "Precision
>    Time Protocol (PTP)" feature are different for E800 series devices
>    compared to other devices supported by this driver.
> 
> Both these require conditional logic based on the underlying device we
> are dealing with.
> 
> The function ice_is_sbq_supported added by commit 8f5ee3c477a8
> ("ice: add support for sideband messages") addresses (1).
> The same function can be used to address (2) as well
> but this just looks weird readability wise in cases that have nothing
> to do with sideband control queues:
> 
> 	if (ice_is_sbq_supported(hw))
> 		/* program register A */
> 	else
> 		/* program register B */
> 
> For these cases, the function ice_is_generic_mac introduced by this
> patch communicates the idea/intention better. Also rework
> ice_is_sbq_supported to use this new function.
> As side-band queue is supported for E825C devices, it's mac_type is
> considered as generic mac_type.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Nitka <grzegorz.nitka@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>