Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 07/18] net: stmmac: clean up stmmac_disable_eee_mode()

From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 20:25:07 +0000

On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 04:48:04PM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> stmmac_disable_eee_mode() is now only called from stmmac_xmit() when
> both priv->tx_path_in_lpi_mode and priv->eee_sw_timer_en are true.
> Therefore:
> 
> 	if (!priv->eee_sw_timer_en)
> 
> in stmmac_disable_eee_mode() will never be true, so this is dead code.
> Remove it, and rename the function to indicate that it now only deals
> with software based EEE mode.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]>
> Tested-by: Choong Yong Liang <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 11 +++--------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> index de06aa1ff3f6..9a043d19ebac 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> @@ -427,18 +427,13 @@ static int stmmac_enable_eee_mode(struct stmmac_priv *priv)
>  }
>  
>  /**
> - * stmmac_disable_eee_mode - disable and exit from LPI mode
> + * stmmac_disable_sw_eee_mode - disable and exit from LPI mode
>   * @priv: driver private structure
>   * Description: this function is to exit and disable EEE in case of
>   * LPI state is true. This is called by the xmit.
>   */
> -static void stmmac_disable_eee_mode(struct stmmac_priv *priv)
> +static void stmmac_disable_sw_eee_mode(struct stmmac_priv *priv)

Looking at this again, I'm still not happy with the function name, but
not enough to send another version. I'll change it to
stmmac_stop_sw_lpi() in the next batch of stmmac EEE cleanups (there
is more to come!)

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