On 06/17/2014 04:54 PM, Nicolas Ferre wrote:

Hi Nicolas,

> On 17/06/2014 05:39, Jongsung Kim :
>> On 06/17/2014 06:28 AM, Sören Brinkmann wrote:
>>> Shouldn't it be sufficient to replace 'MACB_BIT(RCOMP) with 
>>> 'MACB_RX_INT_FLAGS'
>>> to clear all the RX IRQ flags.
>>
>> I'm afraid not.
>>
>> You know, this driver initially targeted only GEMs configured with 
>> "gem_irq_clear_read."
>> For this implementation of GEM, the ISR is automatically cleared by reading. 
>> The driver
>> was designed to operate with the value read from ISR, not with the ISR 
>> itself.
>>
>> However, there are other GEMs configured without "gem_irq_clear_read," 
>> people like you
>> and I working with. To support them, they insert similar codes conditionally 
>> clearing
>> the ISR here and there. Now they are found at 6 places. Not enough yet. Do 
>> you want to
>> insert another at the end of macb_reset_hw..? Maybe not.
> 
> Can't we separate a bit more the implementations of "clear on read" and
> "clear on write" so that we do not spread the tests that you are talking
> about all over the place and slower the driver's hot paths?

I see. I'll revise my patch. Thank you for your advice.

Regards,
Jongsung
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