This series contains a wild collection of improvements for the
qca_spi driver. This is a follow-up series to the recent bugfixes [1].

Patch 1, 2 & 3 in this series is the initially intended rework of
netdev_open/close. Patch 4 & 10 are minor functional improvements and
the rest is clean-up.

Changes in V4:
- keep thread handling in netdev_open, but improve this by two
  separate patches ( 1 & 2 )
- add missing link to bugfix series

Changes in V3:
- rebase on net-next-20240124
- improve commit message in Patch 8
- add Reviewed-by's from Jacob Keller
- add Patch 13 for mailmap as suggested by Jacob
- add Patch 14 for MAINTAINERS entry

Changes in V2:
- rebase on net-next-20231218
- improve cover letter

[1] - https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231206141222.52029-1-wahrenst@gmx.net/

Stefan Wahren (15):
  qca_spi: Add check for kthread_stop
  qca_spi: Improve SPI thread creation
  qca_spi: Improve SPI IRQ handling
  qca_spi: Avoid skb_copy_expand in TX path
  qca_7k_common: Drop unnecessary function description
  qca_7k_common: Drop unused len from qcafrm_handle
  qca_spi: Add QCASPI prefix to ring defines
  qca_spi: Introduce QCASPI_RX_MAX_FRAMES
  qca_spi: Improve calculation of RX buffer size
  qca_spi: Log expected signature in error case
  qca_spi: Adjust log of SPI_REG_RDBUF_BYTE_AVA
  qca_7k: Replace BSD boilerplate with SPDX
  qca_7k: Replace old mail address
  mailmap: add entry for Stefan Wahren
  MAINTAINERS: add entry for qca7k driver(s)

 .mailmap                                      |  1 +
 MAINTAINERS                                   |  7 ++
 drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_7k.c        | 17 +----
 drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_7k.h        | 16 +----
 drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_7k_common.c | 17 +----
 drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_7k_common.h | 29 +-------
 drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_debug.c     | 21 ++----
 drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_debug.h     | 15 +---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c       | 71 +++++++++----------
 drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.h       | 22 ++----
 drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_uart.c      | 17 +----
 11 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 175 deletions(-)

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