Re: [PATCH net-next v5 2/5] net: ipqess: introduce the Qualcomm IPQESS driver

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 21/10/2022 08:45, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> The Qualcomm IPQESS controller is a simple 1G Ethernet controller found
> on the IPQ4019 chip. This controller has some specificities, in that the
> IPQ4019 platform that includes that controller also has an internal
> switch, based on the QCA8K IP.

Thank you for your patch. There is something to discuss/improve.

> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 5c6ce094e55e..46fdd3c523c5 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -17037,6 +17037,12 @@ L:	netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  S:	Maintained
>  F:	drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/emac/
>  
> +QUALCOMM IPQESS ETHERNET DRIVER
> +M:	Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> +L:	netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> +S:	Maintained
> +F:	drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/ipqess/

Add also bindings.

> +
>  QUALCOMM ETHQOS ETHERNET DRIVER
>  M:	Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  R:	Bhupesh Sharma <bhupesh.sharma@xxxxxxxxxx>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/Kconfig
> index a4434eb38950..a723ddbea248 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/Kconfig
> @@ -60,6 +60,17 @@ config QCOM_EMAC
>  	  low power, Receive-Side Scaling (RSS), and IEEE 1588-2008
>  	  Precision Clock Synchronization Protocol.
>  
> +config QCOM_IPQ4019_ESS_EDMA
> +	tristate "Qualcomm Atheros IPQ4019 ESS EDMA support"
> +	depends on OF

I think this is present only on systems where Qualcomm IPQ4019 SoCs is
the main SoC (AP)? If so, I propose not to offer this to non-Qualcomm
SoC builds, because they cannot use it and it makes life of
distro-vendors configurators difficult:

	depends on ARCH_QCOM || COMPILE_TEST

> +	select PHYLINK
> +	help
> +	  This driver supports the Qualcomm Atheros IPQ40xx built-in
> +	  ESS EDMA ethernet controller.
> +
> +	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
> +	  module will be called ipqess.
> +
>  source "drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/Kconfig"


Best regards,
Krzysztof