Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Octeon: Use defines instead of magic numbers

From: Aaro Koskinen
Date: Tue Sep 13 2016 - 15:32:03 EST


Hi,

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 07:04:54PM +0000, Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:03:14 +0300, Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 08:33:43PM +0000, Asbjoern Sloth Toennesen wrote:
> > > The patch will be followed by a similar patch to
> > > drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c
> >
> > I think you should:
> >
> > 1. Move this function to staging/octeon
> >
> > 2. Do required cleanups there
> >
> > 3. Finally delete the function under arch/mips
> >
> > We shouldn't start making cleanups (except code removal) to ethernet code
> > under mips/cavium-octeon/executive as it really does not belong there...
>
> I agree that this would make sense, however I just came across this looking
> at the general MTU code across drivers, and don't have a real interest in
> this particular driver nor mips, so I am not looking to fall that deep into
> the rabbit hole.

In that case please leave the code alone. NAK for this patch.

A.