Re: [PATCH net-next v6 4/7] stmmac: intel: configure SerDes according to the interface mode

[Choong Yong Liang <yong.liang.choong@linux.intel.com>]

On 4/2/2025 4:25 pm, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025, Choong Yong Liang wrote:
> 
> The logic could be reversed + return immediately to reduce the indentation
> of the block below.
> 
> If you just want to have them initialized, it's enough to use {}, no dummy
> 0 is necessary.
> 
> This looks somewhat ugly. Perhaps it would be better if you make the call
> on main level of the function and use local variables to hold the regs
> array and its number of elements until then.
> 
> It would be even better if you could just store the pointer and # of
> elements into some platform info structure so that it wouldn't need to be
> calculated on the fly here (but I don't know this driver well enough to
> know if that's viable/easy to do).
> 
> Why are these arrays in a header and not in the C file that uses them???
> 

Hi Ilpo,

Thank you for your detailed review and comments on the patch.

I'll reverse the logic in intel_tsn_lane_is_available, define the magic 
number, initialize arrays with {}, refactor intel_config_serdes, and move 
the arrays to the C file.