linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 8/9] net: phy: icplus: add PHY counter for IP101G

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Message-ID: <YCNAlrJ2eZ7OG07J@lunn.ch>
Date:   Wed, 10 Feb 2021 03:10:30 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 8/9] net: phy: icplus: add PHY counter for IP101G

On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 05:40:50PM +0100, Michael Walle wrote:
> The IP101G provides three counters: RX packets, CRC errors and symbol
> errors. The error counters can be configured to clear automatically on
> read. Unfortunately, this isn't true for the RX packet counter. Because
> of this and because the RX packet counter is more likely to overflow,
> than the error counters implement only support for the error counters.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew