On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 10:22 -0500, Liberman Igal-B31950 wrote: > Regards, > Igal Liberman > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wood Scott-B07421 > > Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 11:31 PM > > To: Liberman Igal-B31950 <igal.liber...@freescale.com> > > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-...@lists.ozlabs.org; linux- > > ker...@vger.kernel.org; Bucur Madalin-Cristian-B32716 > > <madalin.bu...@freescale.com> > > Subject: Re: [V5, 2/6] fsl/fman: Add FMan support > > > > On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 11:32 -0500, Liberman Igal-B31950 wrote: > > > > > > > + > > > > > +struct device *fman_get_device(struct fman *fman) { return > > > > > +fman->dev; } > > > > > > > > Is this really necessary? > > > > > > > > > > Fman port needs fman->dev, fman structure is opaque, so yes, it's > > > needed. > > > > Why is opacity being maintained from one part of the fman driver to > > another? > > Isn't this the sort of excessive layering that was complained about? > > > > > > It's not really layering. > Fman Port uses Fman resources, it's not completely standalone.
That's my point -- if it's not standalone, why is "struct fman" opaque to the port code? -Scott -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html