Fwd: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/6] net: ethernet: implement OPEN Alliance control transaction interface

[Parthiban.Veerasooran]

Hi Andrew,

As I didn't receive any more comments for past couple days, shall I 
start preparing v2 patch series with comments already given?

Best Regards,
Parthiban V

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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/6] net: ethernet: implement OPEN 
Alliance control transaction interface
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 10:09:09 +0530
From: Parthiban Veerasooran <Parthiban.Veerasooran@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi Andrew,

On 22/09/23 12:49 am, Andrew Lunn wrote:
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>> Yes, as "struct oa_tc6" and its members are not or going to be accessed
>> in the MAC driver, I will consider this as an opaque structure and
>> declare it as void *opaque_oa_tc6 in the MAC driver private structure
>> "struct lan865x_priv" and will pass to the APIs exported from oa_tc6.c lib.
>>
>> Is my understanding correct?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> If the structure is going to be truly opaque, i suggest having it in
> the C file, not the H file.

Yes for sure, I will move it to oa_tc6.c file.

Andrew, thanks a lot for all your comments. They are all really helping 
me to know/learn many things to improve my patches and coding style. 
Please keep supporting.

Best Regards,
Parthiban V
> 
>          Andrew