Re: [CFT PATCH net-next v2] net: phylink: rename mac_link_state() op to mac_pcs_get_state()

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 07:36:44PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/21/2019 7:14 PM, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
> > Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:36:22 +0000
> > 
> >> Rename the mac_link_state() method to mac_pcs_get_state() to make it
> >> clear that it should be returning the MACs PCS current state, which
> >> is used for inband negotiation rather than just reading back what the
> >> MAC has been configured for. Update the documentation to explicitly
> >> mention that this is for inband.
> >>
> >> We drop the return value as well; most of phylink doesn't check the
> >> return value and it is not clear what it should do on error - instead
> >> arrange for state->link to be false.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
> >> ---
> >> This is something I'd like to do to make it clearer what phylink
> >> expects of this function, and that it shouldn't just read-back how
> >> the MAC was configured.
> >>
> >> This version drops the deeper changes, concentrating just on the
> >> phylink API rather than delving deeper into drivers, as I haven't
> >> received any feedback on that patch.
> >>
> >> It would be nice to see all these drivers tested with this change.
> > 
> > I'm tempted to just apply this, any objections?
> > 
> 
> Russell, which of this patch or: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1197425/
> 
> would you consider worthy of merging?

Let's go with v2 for now - it gets the rename done with less risk that
there'll be a problem.  I can always do the remainder in a separate
patch after the merge window as a separate patch.

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