On 28.08.2019 01:27, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 08:41:00PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>> This patch prepares the driver for adding RTL8125 support:
>> - change type of interrupt mask to u32
>> - restrict rtl_is_8168evl_up to RTL8168 chip versions
>> - factor out reading MAC address from registers
>> - re-add function rtl_get_events
>> - move disabling interrupt coalescing to RTL8169/RTL8168 init
>> - read different register for PCI commit
>> - don't use bit LastFrag in tx descriptor after send, RTL8125 clears it
> 
> Hi Heiner
> 
> That is a lot of changes in one patch. Although there is no planned
> functional change, r8169 has a habit of breaking. Having lots of small
> changes would help tracking down which change caused a breakage, via a
> git bisect.
> 
> So you might want to consider splitting this up into a number of small
> patches.
> 
>       Andrew
> 
Hi Andrew,

most of the changes are trivial, but you're right. I'll split this patch.

Heiner

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