Re: [PATCH 13/18] soc: qcom: ipa: IPA network device and microcontroller

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed May 15 2019 - 04:23:34 EST


On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 3:25 AM Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch includes the code that implements a Linux network device,
> using one TX and one RX IPA endpoint. It is used to implement the
> network device representing the modem and its connection to wireless
> networks. There are only a few things that are really modem-specific
> though, and they aren't clearly called out here. Such distinctions
> will be made clearer if we wish to support a network device for
> anything other than the modem.

This does not seem to do much at all, as far as I can see it's a fairly
small abstraction between the linux netdev layer and the actual
implementation. Could you just merge this file into whichever file
it interacts with most closely, and open-code the wrappers there?

Arnd