netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 11/12] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add Energy Detect ops

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Date:   Mon, 17 Jul 2017 13:45:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...oirfairelinux.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 11/12] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add Energy Detect
 ops

From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:32:52 -0400

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> writes:
> 
>> I never liked this. I think it is architecturally wrong for the switch
>> to be poking around in the PHY. It should ask the PHY driver. This is
>> especially true for external PHYs which might not be a Marvell PHY.
> 
> I share the same concern. However this patch is just isolating the
> existing code so that we get rid of the last caps and flags and stop
> writing (without reading them first) arbitrary registers.
> 
> Once this portion is moved to the PHY driver, one can remove it from
> mv88e6xxx.

Seems a reasonable plan of action.

Andrew, do you agree?