linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 01/10] net: phy: Update PHY linkmodes after config

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Message-ID: <20190207145517.08bb8975@bootlin.com>
Date:   Thu, 7 Feb 2019 14:55:17 +0100
From:   Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>,
        thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com, gregory.clement@...tlin.com,
        miquel.raynal@...tlin.com, nadavh@...vell.com, stefanc@...vell.com,
        mw@...ihalf.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 01/10] net: phy: Update PHY linkmodes after
 config_init

Hello Andrew,

On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 14:48:07 +0100
Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 10:49:30AM +0100, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
>> We want to be able to update a PHY's supported list in the config_init
>> callback, so move the Pause parameters settings from phydrv->features
>> after calling config_init to make sure these  parameters aren't
>> overwritten.  
>
>Hi Maxime
>
>I have a patch which makes some core changes to support PHY doing
>runtime feature detection. I would prefer to use them, than this.
>
>Either I or Heiner will post them soon.

Sure, no problem, thanks for doing this. I'll be happy to review and
test that on my side.

As I said, I lack the big picture view on that part so my approach was
pretty naive, I'm glad you can take care of this :)

Thanks,

Maxime