Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: Add support for asking the PHY its abilities

[Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>]

On 09.02.2019 20:42, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> I know, it's patch 15 in your series ;) And I'm aware that usually new
>> core functionality is acceptable only if it comes together with a user,
>> to avoid having billions of orphaned good ideas in the code.
>> I focused on the core here to not get lost in all the new stuff, and to
>> provide Maxime with some direction for adjusting his series.
> 
> I'm just trying to avoid Maxime reimplementing something when we
> already have a patch:
> 
Sure, I didn't mean Maxime should re-implement things we have in the pipe.
I meant it more in a way that he gets an idea in which direction we're moving.

> https://github.com/lunn/linux/commit/07e3fa8f183f05a09d969a9378534da35238eeb9
> 
> Maxime, feel free to cherry-pick this into your series.
> 
I'll submit this one too.

> 	Andrew
> 
Heiner

Oh, and I just saw: When we talk about/with somebody, we should add him to the
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