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From: Russell King <rmk@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: phy: Export gen10g_* functions
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:43:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180228194323.GA30733@flint.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180228193612.29409-3-f.fainelli@gmail.com>

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.

-- 
Russell King

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-28 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-28 19:36 [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: phy: Reduce duplication Florian Fainelli
2018-02-28 19:36 ` [PATCH net-next 1/5] net: phy: aquantia: Utilize genphy_c45_aneg_done() Florian Fainelli
2018-02-28 19:36 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: phy: Export gen10g_* functions Florian Fainelli
2018-02-28 19:43   ` Russell King [this message]
2018-02-28 19:36 ` [PATCH net-next 3/5] net: phy: teranetics: Utilize generic functions Florian Fainelli
2018-02-28 19:36 ` [PATCH net-next 4/5] net: phy: cortina: " Florian Fainelli
2018-02-28 19:36 ` [PATCH net-next 5/5] net: phy: marvell10g: Utilize gen10g_soft_reset() Florian Fainelli
2018-02-28 19:44   ` Russell King
2018-02-28 19:49     ` Moritz Fischer
2018-02-28 22:07       ` Florian Fainelli

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