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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew-g2DYL2Zd6BY@public.gmane.org>
To: Raju Lakkaraju <Raju.Lakkaraju-dzo6w/eZyo2tG0bUXCXiUA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Florian Fainelli
	<f.fainelli-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
	netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	Allan.Nielsen-dzo6w/eZyo2tG0bUXCXiUA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: phy: Add Fast Link Failure - 2 set driver for Microsemi PHYs.
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 12:58:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161018105820.GM26778@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161018103413.GA31087-dzo6w/eZyo2tG0bUXCXiUA@public.gmane.org>

> > In fact, this looks a lot like netdev features (e.g: checksum
> > offload), and there seems to be some commonality here between at
> > least Marvell and Microsemi (for the faster link down reporting),
> > so maybe we should start adding PHY features similar to netdev
> > features?

> Sure. 
> 
> I would like add one flag in phy_device structure:
> u64 phy_features;
> 
> In phy_driver structure, i would like to add 2 function pointer as
> 
> int (*phy_featues_set)(struct phy_device *phydev);
> int (*phy_featues_get)(struct phy_device *phydev);
> 
> All the PHY specific features i.e. Fast link failure -2, Downshift, Loopback etc
> are the case in feature_set/feature_get functions.

Please follow how the ethertool features are implemented. So you need
to extend net/core/ethtool.c to pass these call down, etc.

       Andrew
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-18 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-14 11:40 [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: phy: Add Downshift, FLF2 drivers for Microsemi Raju Lakkaraju
     [not found] ` <1476445233-26524-1-git-send-email-Raju.Lakkaraju-dzo6w/eZyo2tG0bUXCXiUA@public.gmane.org>
2016-10-14 11:40   ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: phy: Add Speed downshift set driver for Microsemi PHYs Raju Lakkaraju
2016-10-14 12:12     ` Andrew Lunn
2016-10-17  7:31       ` Raju Lakkaraju
2016-10-17 12:38         ` Florian Fainelli
2016-10-18 10:41           ` Raju Lakkaraju
     [not found]     ` <1476445233-26524-2-git-send-email-Raju.Lakkaraju-dzo6w/eZyo2tG0bUXCXiUA@public.gmane.org>
2016-10-18 14:24       ` Rob Herring
2016-10-14 11:40 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: phy: Add Fast Link Failure - 2 " Raju Lakkaraju
2016-10-14 12:02   ` Andrew Lunn
2016-10-17  8:13     ` Raju Lakkaraju
     [not found]       ` <20161017081312.GB2365-dzo6w/eZyo2tG0bUXCXiUA@public.gmane.org>
2016-10-17 12:51         ` Florian Fainelli
     [not found]           ` <838C6202-9B7D-4AFA-B163-55515044FA4F-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-10-18 10:34             ` Raju Lakkaraju
     [not found]               ` <20161018103413.GA31087-dzo6w/eZyo2tG0bUXCXiUA@public.gmane.org>
2016-10-18 10:58                 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2016-10-18 11:31                   ` Raju Lakkaraju
     [not found]                     ` <20161018113043.GA19357-dzo6w/eZyo2tG0bUXCXiUA@public.gmane.org>
2016-10-18 11:49                       ` Andrew Lunn

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