netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] of: mdio: honor flags passed to of_phy

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Date:	Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:39:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] of: mdio: honor flags passed to of_phy_connect

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:49:36 -0700

> Commit f9a8f83b04e0 ("net: phy: remove flags argument from phy_{attach,
> connect, connect_direct}") removed the flags argument to the PHY library
> calls to: phy_{attach,connect,connect_direct}.
> 
> Most Device Tree aware drivers call of_phy_connect() with the flag
> argument set to 0, but some of them might want to set a different value
> there in order for the PHY driver to key a specific behavior based on
> the phy_device::dev_flags value.
> 
> Allow such drivers to set custom dev_flags as part of the
> of_phy_connect() call since of_phy_connect() does start the PHY state
> machine, it will call into the PHY driver config_init() callback which
> is usually where a specific phy_flags value is important.
> 
> Fixes: f9a8f83b04e0 ("net: phy: remove flags argument from phy_{attach, connect, connect_direct}")
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

I do not see anyone passing non-zero in as the flags argument.

It is difficult for me to determine the impact of this patch,
whether it should really go to 'net' and/or 'stable', etc.
if you don't tell me who this could possibly break.

It's even worse when I do all of the searching around and
cannot find a breakage case myself. :-/
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