From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: phy: let genphy_c45_read_link manage the devices to check
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 21:59:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190207205948.GD5223@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c00df20-b3e1-7ea9-2adb-004e6291d52c@gmail.com>
On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 09:41:46PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> Let genphy_c45_read_link manage the devices to check, this removes
> overhead from callers. Add C22EXT to the list of excluded devices
> because it doesn't implement the status register. According to the
> 802.3 clause 45 spec registers 29.0 - 29.4 are reserved.
>
> At the moment we have very few clause 45 PHY drivers, so we are
> lacking experience whether other drivers will have to exclude further
> devices, or may need to check PHY XS. If we should figure out that
> list of devices to check needs to be configurable, I think best will
> be to add a device list member to struct phy_driver.
>
> v2:
> - adjusted commit message
> - exclude also device C22EXT from link checking
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-07 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-07 20:41 [PATCH v2 net-next] net: phy: let genphy_c45_read_link manage the devices to check Heiner Kallweit
2019-02-07 20:59 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2019-02-08 2:17 ` David Miller
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