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

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Message-ID: <349385df-3de6-63e0-f1bb-6085c50b9840@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 7 Feb 2019 19:21:18 +0100
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...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

On 07.02.2019 14:55, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> 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.
> 
The second version of the patch set comes in time because I was just
about to submit parts of it on Maxime's behalf. We may have some
dependencies between adding the get_features callback in phy_driver
and this patch set. Maybe the patch set needs to be splitted.
I think tomorrow or the day after I can have a closer look at this.

> 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 :)
> 
Don't be so self-effacing, it's good work :)

> Thanks,
> 
> Maxime
> 
Heiner