netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] phy: mdio-thunder: Add driver for Cavium Thunder SoC MDIO buses.

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Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:54:50 -0700
From:	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
To:	Andreas Färber <afaerber@...e.de>
CC:	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
	Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@...ium.com>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	"Pawel Moll" <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	"Radha Mohan Chintakuntla" <rchintakuntla@...ium.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] phy: mdio-thunder: Add driver for Cavium Thunder
 SoC MDIO buses.

On 03/16/2016 03:50 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 11.03.2016 um 18:53 schrieb David Daney:
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig b/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig
>> index 40faec9..075a4cc 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/Kconfig
>> @@ -196,6 +196,17 @@ config MDIO_OCTEON
>>   	  buses. It is required by the Octeon and ThunderX ethernet device
>>   	  drivers on some systems.
>>
>> +config MDIO_THUNDER
>> +	tristate "Support for MDIO buses on on ThunderX SOCs"
>
> Double "on", spotted in next-20160316.
>
>> +	depends on 64BIT
>> +	depends on PCI
>> +	select MDIO_CAVIUM
>> +	help
>> +	  This driver supports the MDIO interfaces found on Cavium
>> +	  ThunderX SoCs when the MDIO bus device appears on as a PCI
>> +	  device.
>
> While at it, this sentence sounds weird. Did you mean s/as/is/? Or is
> there another verb missing in there?

Should be "... appears as a PCI device."

davem already merged the patch, so this would have to be fixed as a 
follow-on patch.

Since you found this, do you want to send the patch?

Thanks,
David Daney

>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
>> +
>> +
>>   config MDIO_SUN4I
>>   	tristate "Allwinner sun4i MDIO interface support"
>>   	depends on ARCH_SUNXI
> [snip]
>