Re: [PATCH net-next 5/8] net: dsa: felix: remove confusing/incorrect comment from felix_setup()

From: Jacob Keller
Date: Wed Apr 12 2023 - 17:20:05 EST




On 4/12/2023 5:47 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> That comment was written prior to knowing that what I was actually
> seeing was a manifestation of the bug fixed in commit b4024c9e5c57
> ("felix: Fix initialization of ioremap resources").
>
> There isn't any particular reason now why the hardware initialization is
> done in felix_setup(), so just delete that comment to avoid spreading
> misinformation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix.c | 5 -----
> 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix.c b/drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix.c
> index 6dcebcfd71e7..80861ac090ae 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix.c
> @@ -1550,11 +1550,6 @@ static int felix_connect_tag_protocol(struct dsa_switch *ds,
> }
> }
>
> -/* Hardware initialization done here so that we can allocate structures with
> - * devm without fear of dsa_register_switch returning -EPROBE_DEFER and causing
> - * us to allocate structures twice (leak memory) and map PCI memory twice
> - * (which will not work).
> - */
> static int felix_setup(struct dsa_switch *ds)
> {
> struct ocelot *ocelot = ds->priv;

Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>