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Date:	Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:33:06 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	peppe.cavallaro@...com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phy: power management support

From: Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@...com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:57:00 +0100

> This patch adds the power management support into the physical
> abstraction layer.
> 
> Suspend and resume functions respectively turns on/off the bit 11
> into the PHY Basic mode control register.
> Generic PHY device starts supporting PM.
> 
> In order to support the wake-on LAN and avoid to put in power down
> the PHY device, the MDIO is aware of what the Ethernet device wants to do.
> 
> Voluntary, no CONFIG_PM defines were added into the sources.
> Also generic suspend/resume functions are exported to allow
> other drivers use them (such as genphy_config_aneg etc.).
> 
> Within the phy_driver_register function, we need to remove the
> memset. It overrides the device driver owner and it is not good.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>

Applied.

We should audit all of the phy_driver_register() callers to make
sure the removal of that memset() won't cause any problems.
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