Re: [PATCH 0/18] net: dsa: HW bridging, EEE support

[David Miller]

From: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 08:46:37 -0700

> Patch 1 to 7 of this series prepare the drivers using the mv88e6xxx code
> for HW bridging support, without adding the code itself. For the most part
> this factors out common port initialization code. There is no functional
> change except for patch 3, which disables the message port bit for the
> CPU port to prevent packet duplication if HW bridging is configured.
> 
> Patch 8 adds the infrastructure for hardware bridging support to the
> mv88e6xxx code.
> 
> Patch 9 wires the MV88E6352 driver to support hardware bridging.
> 
> Patches 10 to 12 add support for ndo_fdb functions to the dsa subsystem, and
> wire up the MV88E6352 driver to support those functions.
> 
> Patches 13 to 16 add EEE support and HW bridging support to the mv88e6171
> driver. This set of patches is from Andrew, applied on top of the first
> set of patches.
> 
> Patch 17 and 18 add HW bridging support to the mv88e6131 driver. This code
> is untested and therefore marked RFT.
> 
> The series applies to net-next as of 3/20/2015.
> 
> Thanks a lot to Andrew Lunn for testing and valuable feedback.

Generally this series looks good.

But this driver would be so much easier to read and understand if it
used mnemonics instead of constants for the register offsets.
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