RE: [PATCH v2 5/5] soc/fsl_qbman: export coalesce change API

[Madalin-cristian Bucur]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Li Yang [mailto:leoyang.li@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 12:50 AM
> To: Madalin-cristian Bucur <madalin.bucur@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Roy Pledge <roy.pledge@xxxxxxx>; Claudiu Manoil
> <claudiu.manoil@xxxxxxx>; Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>; Scott
> Wood <oss@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; moderated list:ARM/FREESCALE IMX / MXC ARM
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] soc/fsl_qbman: export coalesce change API
> 
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 3:45 AM Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > Export the API required to control the QMan portal interrupt coalescing
> > settings.
> 
> These are new APIs not just old APIs being exported.  What is the user
> of these APIs?  Is the user being submitted?  We cannot have APIs in
> kernel that has no users.

Hi,

These are new APIs that will be used in the DPAA Ethernet driver.
Changes for the DPAA QBMan and DPAA Ethernet follow different paths upstream
so the Ethernet driver patch that makes use of these APIs will be sent when
these changes reach the net-next/master tree.

Regards,
Madalin