Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: Add support for asking the PHY its abilities

[Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>]

On 09.02.2019 17:35, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 03:24:47PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>> From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
>> Add support for runtime determination of what the PHY supports, by
>> adding a new function to the phy driver. The get_features call should
>> set the phydev->supported member with the features the PHY supports.
>> It is only called if phydrv->features is NULL.
>>
>> This requires minor changes to pause. The PHY driver should not set
>> pause abilities, except for when it has odd cause capabilities, e.g.
>> pause cannot be disabled. With this change, phydev->supported already
>> contains the drivers abilities, including pause. So rather than
>> considering phydrv->features, look at the phydev->supported, and
>> enable pause if neither of the pause bits are already set.
> 
> Hi Heiner
> 
> Ah, cool, these are the patches i was asking for, when you asked
> about splitting Maxime's patches. There is one more in my tree which
> converts the marvell10g to using this. I think that should be posted
> as well. It makes it clear how this should be used, and it replaces
> one of the patches in Maxime's set.
> 
I know, it's patch 15 in your series ;) And I'm aware that usually new
core functionality is acceptable only if it comes together with a user,
to avoid having billions of orphaned good ideas in the code.
I focused on the core here to not get lost in all the new stuff, and to
provide Maxime with some direction for adjusting his series.

>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
>> [hkallweit1@gmail.com: fixed small checkpatch complaint in one comment]
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 	Andrew
> 
Heiner