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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>,
	Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>,
	Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: switch drivers to use dynamic feature detection
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 00:13:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190407221312.GA14347@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0cc96fab-e102-c0d1-ade0-90e3e06dc9f1@gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 11:57:13AM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> Recently genphy_read_abilities() has been added that dynamically detects
> clause 22 PHY abilities. I *think* this detection should work with all
> supported PHY's, at least for the ones with basic features sets, i.e.
> PHY_BASIC_FEATURES and PHY_GBIT_FEATURES. So let's remove setting these
> features explicitly and rely on phylib feature detection.

Hi Heiner

We could make this a two step process, to avoid regressions. For one
cycle compare genphy_read_abilities() against .features and raise a
WARN_ON() if they differ. And keep using the .features value.

Then a release late, complete the swap removing .features and the
WARN_ON.

	Andrew

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-07 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-07  9:57 [PATCH net-next] net: phy: switch drivers to use dynamic feature detection Heiner Kallweit
2019-04-07 20:31 ` Florian Fainelli
2019-04-07 20:48   ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-04-07 22:13 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2019-04-08 17:45   ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-04-08 18:12     ` Andrew Lunn
2019-04-08 18:45       ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-04-08  2:38 ` Richard Cochran
2019-04-09 20:59 ` David Miller
2019-04-10 19:31   ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-04-10 19:33     ` Florian Fainelli

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