Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/cadence/macb: clear interrupts simply and correctly

From: Jongsung Kim <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:39:32 +0900

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.

Jongsung