Re: [PATCH net v3 3/4] net: phy: mscc: remove unnecessary phydev locking

Russell King (Oracle)
2023-05-23T15:45:46Z

On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 05:31:07PM +0200, David Epping wrote:
> Holding the struct phy_device (phydev) lock is unnecessary when
> accessing phydev->interface in the PHY driver .config_init method,
> which is the only place that vsc85xx_rgmii_set_skews() is called from.
>
> The phy_modify_paged() function implements required MDIO bus level
> locking, which can not be achieved by a phydev lock.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Epping <david.epping@missinglinkelectronics.com>

Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>

Thanks!

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