From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@nxp.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, imx@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] net: phylink: add phylink_set_mac_pm() helper
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 16:06:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y0BAe1dVwJaDTPB+@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221007144111.786748-1-shenwei.wang@nxp.com>
On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 09:41:11AM -0500, Shenwei Wang wrote:
> +/**
> + * phylink_set_mac_pm() - set phydev->mac_managed_pm to true
> + * @pl: a pointer to a &struct phylink returned from phylink_create()
> + *
> + * Set the phydev->mac_managed_pm, which is under the phylink instance
> + * specified by @pl, to true. This is to indicate that the MAC driver is
> + * responsible for PHY PM.
> + *
> + * The function can be called in the net_device_ops ndo_open() method.
I think this needs to be a bit clearer - a driver author may well ask
"before or after the PHY is connected?" and this really ought to state
this detail.
Otherwise, the patch is fine.
Thanks.
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2022-10-07 14:41 [PATCH v2 1/1] net: phylink: add phylink_set_mac_pm() helper Shenwei Wang
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