Re: [PATCH 5/7] dsa: marvell: Add helper function to validate the max_frame_size variable

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 01:21:13PM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 01:54:19PM +0100, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> > This commit shall be regarded as a transition one, as this function helps
> > to validate the correctness of max_frame_size variable added to
> > mv88e6xxx_info structure.
> > 
> > It is necessary to avoid regressions as manual assessment of this value
> > turned out to be error prone.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lukasz Majewski <lukma@xxxxxxx>
> > Suggested-by: Russell King (Oracle) <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Shouldn't this be patch 2 - immediately after populating the
> .max_frame_size members, and before adding any additional devices?

Moreover, shouldn't the patch order be:

1, 5, 6 (fixing the entry that needs it), 7 (which then gets the
max frame size support in place), 4 (so that .set_max_frame_size for
6250 is in place), 2, 3

?

In other words, get the new infrastructure you need in place first
(that being the new .max_frame_size and the .set_max_frame_size
function) before then adding the new support.

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