netdev - Re: [PATCH] phylib: Remove unnecessary "reset" fixups in genphy_setup

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Date:	Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:39:59 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	afleming@...escale.com
Cc:	jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phylib: Remove unnecessary "reset" fixups in
 genphy_setup_forced

From: Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:16:29 -0600

> genphy_setup_forced hasn't actually reset the PHY for a long time,
> but a comment to that effect remained in the code, so code continued
> to act as if it *had* reset the PHY, and called the necessary fixup
> functions to respond to a PHY reset.  With no reset, those functions
> are no longer needed, so we remove them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>

Applied.
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