netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/14] net: remove empty MDIO bus reset functions

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Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:19:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/14] net: remove empty MDIO bus reset
 functions

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:07:12 -0700

> This patchset removes all empty MDIO bus reset functions that we have in the
> tree (hopefully all of them). This function is optional for the MDIO bus code in
> drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c::mdiobus_register, the documentation is updated to
> reflect that.
> 
> Having less call sites to update will allow us to implement a generic BMCR_RESET
> based PHY reset for MDIO buses that require to reset their PHYs before their
> PHY detection succeeds (e.g: HiSilicon hip04 current submission) and provide it
> as a helper.

Series applied, thanks.
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