Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] net: rnpgbe: Add n500/n210 chip support

From: Yibo Dong
Date: Tue Aug 19 2025 - 21:45:40 EST


On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 02:59:09PM +0100, Vadim Fedorenko wrote:
> On 18/08/2025 12:28, Dong Yibo wrote:
> > Initialize n500/n210 chip bar resource map and
> > dma, eth, mbx ... info for future use.
> >
> [...]
>
> > +struct mucse_hw {
> > + void __iomem *hw_addr;
> > + void __iomem *ring_msix_base;
> > + struct pci_dev *pdev;
> > + enum rnpgbe_hw_type hw_type;
> > + struct mucse_dma_info dma;
> > + struct mucse_eth_info eth;
> > + struct mucse_mac_info mac;
> > + struct mucse_mbx_info mbx;
> > + u32 usecstocount;
>
> What is this field for? You don't use it anywhere in the patchset apart
> from initialization. Maybe it's better to introduce it once it's used?
> Together with the defines of values for this field...
>

It is used to store chip frequency which is used to calculate values
related to 'delay register' in the future. I will improve this.

Thanks for your feedback.