linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] ethernet: net: bcmgenet: only use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link

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Message-ID: <0f39868b-2f49-f234-fc58-dc42ed28d961@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 25 Sep 2016 08:50:44 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Philippe Reynes <tremyfr@...il.com>, jaedon.shin@...il.com,
        davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ethernet: net: bcmgenet: only use new api
 ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings

Le 25/09/2016 à 08:49, Florian Fainelli a écrit :
> Le 25/09/2016 à 08:36, Philippe Reynes a écrit :
>> Some times ago, a serie of patches were committed :
>> - commit 62469c76007e ("net: ethernet: bcmgenet: use phydev from struct net_device")
>> - commit 6b352ebccbcf ("net: ethernet: broadcom: bcmgenet: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings")
>> The first patch add a regression on this driver, so it should be reverted.
>> As the second patch depend on the former, it should be reverted too.
>>
>> The first patch is buggy because there is a "trick" in this driver.
>> The structure phydev is kept in the private data when the interface
>> go down, and used when the interface go up to enable the phy before
>> the function phy_connect is called.
>>
>> I don't have this hardware, neither the datasheet. So I won't
>> update the driver to avoid this trick.
>>
>> But the real goal of the first serie was to move to the new api
>> ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings. So I provide a new version of
>> the patch without the "cleaning" of driver to use the phydev
>> store in the net_device structure.
>>
>> Jaedon Shin (1):
>>   Revert "net: ethernet: bcmgenet: use phydev from struct net_device"
> 
> Please replace Jaedon's patch with mine which contains more background
> as to what the problem was and how it gets fixed.
> 
>>
>> Philippe Reynes (2):
>>   Revert "net: ethernet: bcmgenet: use new api
>>     ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings"
>>   net: ethernet: broadcom: bcmgenet: use new api
>>     ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
> 
> Can you be consistent in the subject and just use "net: bcmgenet: " as a
> prefix here?

An finally, indicate in the subject which tree you are targeting,
"net-next" or "net".
-- 
Florian