Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: phy: Export gen10g_* functions

Russell King
2018-02-28T19:43:36Z

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:36:09AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> In order to remove a fair amount of duplication in the different 10G PHY
> drivers, export all gen10g_* functions to be able to make use of those.

The gen10g functions tend to be barely functional - for example,
gen10g_soft_reset() doesn't do the soft-reset thing, which could be
argued to be a bug, as there's a generic way to do that.

However, doing that for the Marvell 10G driver would be a big mistake.
The PHY crashes if you try to set the reset bit in any of the control
register 1s.

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Russell King