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Date:   Wed, 1 Nov 2017 13:43:03 +0100
From:   "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@...iej.szmigiero.name>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: phy: leds: Add support for "link" trigger

Hi Andrew,

On 01.11.2017 13:37, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> Hi Maciej
> 
> I don't particularly like the
> 
>        if (!phy->link)
>                 goto out_change_speed;
> 
> part of the existing code. Makes me thing of BASIC. goto is good for
> error handling, but this is not an error.
> 
> If you feel like it, maybe you can refactor this code? Add a function like:
> 
> phy_led_trigger_no_link(struct phy_device *phy)
> {
>         if (phy->last_triggered) {
>                 led_trigger_event(&phy->last_triggered->trigger,
>                                   LED_OFF);
>                 phy->last_triggered = NULL;
>         }
> }
> 
> and call it, rather than using goto? It then becomes a lot more
> obvious what your change is doing, turning the LED off when there is
> no link.

All right, will do this, too.

> Thanks
>    Andrew
> 

Maciej

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