linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: bcmgenet: add support for ethtool flow control

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Date:   Mon, 11 May 2020 20:24:24 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Doug Berger <opendmb@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: bcmgenet: add support for ethtool flow
 control



On 5/11/2020 5:24 PM, Doug Berger wrote:
> This commit extends the supported ethtool operations to allow MAC
> level flow control to be configured for the bcmgenet driver. It
> provides an example of how the new phy_set_pause function and the
> phy_validate_pause function can be used to configure the desired
> PHY advertising as well as how the phy_get_pause function can be
> used for resolving negotiated pause modes which may be overridden
> by the MAC.
> 
> The ethtool utility can be used to change the configuration to enable
> auto-negotiated symmetric and asymmetric modes as well as manually
> enabling support for RX and TX Pause frames individually.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@...il.com>

[snip]

Only if you need to respin this patch series, I would rename
_flow_control_autoneg() to bcmgenet_flow_control_autoneg() or something
shorter that still contains bcmgenet_ as a prefix for consistency.

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
-- 
Florian