linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/5] net: lan966x: add port module support

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Message-ID: <e973b8e6-f8ca-eec9-f5ac-9ae401deea81@seco.com>
Date:   Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:36:58 -0500
From:   Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@...o.com>
To:     "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@...rochip.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, robh+dt@...nel.org,
        p.zabel@...gutronix.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/5] net: lan966x: add port module support

Hi Russell,

On 11/18/21 8:31 AM, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 01:59:28PM +0100, Horatiu Vultur wrote:
>> The 11/18/2021 09:59, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
>> > Another approach would be to split phylink_mii_c22_pcs_decode_state()
>> > so that the appropriate decode function is selected depending on the
>> > interface state, which may be a better idea.
>>
>> I have tried to look for phylink_mii_c22_pcs_decode_state() and I
>> have found it only here [1], and seems that it depends on [2]. But not
>> much activity happened to these series since October.
>> Do you think they will still get in?
>
> I don't see any reason the first two patches should not be sent. I'm
> carrying the second one locally because I use it in some changes I've
> made to the mv88e6xxx code - as I mentioned in the patchwork entry you
> linked to. See:
>
>   http://git.armlinux.org.uk/cgit/linux-arm.git/log/?h=net-queue
>
>   "net: phylink: Add helpers for c22 registers without MDIO"
>
> Although I notice I committed it to my tree with the wrong author. :(
>
> Sean, please can you submit the mdiodev patch and this patch for
> net-next as they have general utility? Thanks.

The mdiodev patch is already in the tree as 0ebecb2644c8 ("net: mdio:
Add helper functions for accessing MDIO devices"). The c22 patch is
submitted as [1].

--Sean

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20211022160959.3350916-1-sean.anderson@seco.com/