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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com
Cc: rob@landley.net, andrew@lunn.ch, f.fainelli@gmail.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: Add sysfs attribute to prevent PHY suspend
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 20:30:01 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140309.203001.1318893833441564547.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <531CF864.9040406@gmail.com>

From: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 00:25:24 +0100

> There is no way to determine if a bootloader is broken or not. The
> sysfs knob allows to provide a use case based decision. Of course,
> we can invent some freaky device tree property but that the DT
> maintainers will not like either.

My point is that whatever mechanism is used to "decide" that the sysfs
knob gets set, can also be used to "decide" that a DT property is
instantiated in the device tree.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-10  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-23 16:58 [PATCH] net: phy: add suspend_halted module param Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-02-24 18:20 ` Florian Fainelli
2014-02-24 23:05   ` David Miller
2014-02-24 23:34     ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-02-24 19:15 ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-24 19:37   ` Florian Fainelli
2014-02-24 19:39     ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-25 22:38   ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-02-26 18:21     ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-26 18:30       ` Florian Fainelli
2014-02-26 19:10         ` Andrew Lunn
2014-02-26 19:35           ` Florian Fainelli
2014-02-26 20:22             ` Andrew Lunn
2014-03-07 11:34 ` [PATCH] net: phy: Add sysfs attribute to prevent PHY suspend Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-03-08  1:09   ` Florian Fainelli
2014-03-09 23:12   ` David Miller
2014-03-09 23:25     ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-03-10  0:30       ` David Miller [this message]
2014-03-10  0:37         ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-03-10  0:41           ` David Miller
2014-03-10  0:53             ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-03-10  3:40               ` David Miller
2014-03-10 10:28                 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-03-10 14:25               ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-03-10 16:56                 ` Florian Fainelli

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