linux-kernel - Re: [net-next PATCH 02/14] net: phy: at803x: move disable WOL for 8031 from probe to config

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Message-ID: <ZWcDUJY8rM6uApO1@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:24:32 +0000
From:   "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
        Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 02/14] net: phy: at803x: move disable WOL for
 8031 from probe to config

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 03:12:07AM +0100, Christian Marangi wrote:
> Probe should be used only for DT parsing and allocate required priv, it
> shouldn't touch regs, there is config_init for that.

I'm not sure where you get that idea from. PHY driver probe() functions
are permitted to access registers to do any setup that they wish to.

config_init() is to configure the PHY for use with the network
interface.

I think this patch is just noise rather than a cleanup.

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