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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: "Allan W. Nielsen" <allan.nielsen@microsemi.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, f.fainelli@gmail.com,
	raju.lakkaraju@microsemi.com, cphealy@gmail.com, robh@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/5] ethtool: (uapi) Add ETHTOOL_PHY_GTUNABLE and ETHTOOL_PHY_STUNABLE
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 13:29:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161104122935.GL13959@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161104121841.GA5676@microsemi.com>

> It was "just" to mimic how "tunable_type_id/ETHTOOL_TUNABLE_UNSPEC" (and other)
> is done.

Yes, i know. I'm wondering about cult cargo programming...

> The thinking was that we did not want an "ID" of zero do to anything - because
> that could mean the programmer had forgot to set the field...

Seems reasonable. Leave it as is.

      Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-04 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-04 10:35 [PATCH net-next 0/5] Adding PHY-Tunables and downshift support Allan W. Nielsen
2016-11-04 10:35 ` [PATCH net-next 1/5] ethtool: (uapi) Add ETHTOOL_PHY_GTUNABLE and ETHTOOL_PHY_STUNABLE Allan W. Nielsen
2016-11-04 12:03   ` Andrew Lunn
2016-11-04 12:18     ` Allan W. Nielsen
2016-11-04 12:29       ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2016-11-04 10:35 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] ethtool: Implements ETHTOOL_PHY_GTUNABLE/ETHTOOL_PHY_STUNABLE Allan W. Nielsen
2016-11-04 12:13   ` Andrew Lunn
2016-11-04 13:31     ` Allan W. Nielsen
2016-11-04 10:35 ` [PATCH net-next 3/5] ethtool: (uapi) Add ETHTOOL_PHY_DOWNSHIFT to PHY tunables Allan W. Nielsen
2016-11-04 10:35 ` [PATCH net-next 4/5] ethtool: Core impl for ETHTOOL_PHY_DOWNSHIFT tunable Allan W. Nielsen
2016-11-04 10:35 ` [PATCH net-next 5/5] net: phy: Add downshift get/set support in Microsemi PHYs driver Allan W. Nielsen
2016-11-04 12:27   ` Andrew Lunn
2016-11-04 13:42     ` Allan W. Nielsen
2016-11-04 13:55       ` Andrew Lunn

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