Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: improve stopping PHY

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 08:20:43PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> phy_stop_interrupts() is called from phy_disconnect() only. Most of
> what it does has been done by phy_stop() already which should have
> been called before phy_disconnect(). Based on that we can do some
> improvements:
> - remove phy_stop_interrupts() and free interrupt in
>   phy_disconnect() directly
> - replace condition "phydev->irq > 0" with the appropriate helper
> - make sure phy state machine is stopped after calling phy_stop()
> - check in phy_disconnect() that PHY is in a stopped state. Else
>   warn to detect misbehaving drivers and call phy_stop().

Hi Heiner

When i see a list like this, it makes me think there should be a
patchset, not a single patch. If something does break, we can bisect
it to just one change.

Please could you try to break this up into a few patches.

Thanks
	Andrew