Re: [PATCH] stmmac: Add support for SIMATIC IOT2000 platform

From: Jan Kiszka
Date: Tue Apr 25 2017 - 05:01:02 EST


On 2017-04-25 09:30, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 2017-04-24 23:27, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:27 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> The IOT2000 is industrial controller platform, derived from the Intel
>>>> Galileo Gen2 board. The variant IOT2020 comes with one LAN port, the
>>>> IOT2040 has two of them. They can be told apart based on the board asset
>>>> tag in the DMI table.
>
>>>> + const char *asset_tag;
>>>
>>> I guess this is redundant. See below.
>>>
>>>> + {
>>>> + .name = "SIMATIC IOT2000",
>>>> + .asset_tag = "6ES7647-0AA00-0YA2",
>>>> + .func = 6,
>>>> + .phy_addr = 1,
>>>> + },
>>>
>>> The below has same definition disregard on asset_tag.
>>>
>>
>> There is a small difference in the asset tag, just not at the last digit
>> where one may expect it, look:
>>
>> ...-0YA2 -> IOT2020
>> ...-1YA2 -> IOT2040
>
> Yes. And how does it change my statement? You may use one record here
> instead of two.

How? Please be more verbose in your comments.

>
>>
>>>> + {
>>>> + .name = "SIMATIC IOT2000",
>>>> + .asset_tag = "6ES7647-0AA00-1YA2",
>>>> + .func = 6,
>>>> + .phy_addr = 1,
>>>> + },
>
>>>> + {
>>>> + .name = "SIMATIC IOT2000",
>>>> + .asset_tag = "6ES7647-0AA00-1YA2",
>>>> + .func = 7,
>>>> + .phy_addr = 1,
>>>> + },
>>>
>>> How this supposed to work if phy_addr is the same?
>> That address space is MAC-local, and we have two different MACs here.
>
> Got it, though asset_tag here is redundant as well.
>

It's not as it is the only differentiating criteria to tell the
two-ports variant apart from the one-port (and to avoid confusing it
with any potential future variant). We could leave out the name, but I
kept it for documentation purposes.

Jan

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