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Message-ID: <572D2BAD.8080606@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 6 May 2016 16:41:33 -0700
From:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:	Philippe Reynes <tremyfr@...il.com>, fugang.duan@....com,
	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: phy: add ethtool_phy_{get|set}_link_ksettings

On 06/05/16 16:18, Philippe Reynes wrote:
> The callback {get|set}_link_ksettings are often defined
> in a very close way. There are mainly two differences in
> those callback:
> - the name of the netdev private structure
> - the name of the struct phydev in the private structure
> 
> We add two defines ethtool_phy_{get|set}_link_ksettings
> to avoid writing severals times almost the same function.

This looks fine in principle, but then there is a whole ton of code that
could become like that in the kernel, I do not have any strong opinion
either way...
-- 
Florian

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