netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC 06/26] phy: provide a hook for link up/link down events

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Message-ID: <568EC230.4070509@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:53:20 -0800
From:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 06/26] phy: provide a hook for link up/link down events

On 07/12/15 09:37, Russell King wrote:
> Sometimes, we need to do additional work between the PHY coming up and
> marking the carrier present - for example, we may need to wait for the
> PHY to MAC link to finish negotiation.  This changes phylib to provide
> a notification function pointer which avoids the built-in
> netif_carrier_on() and netif_carrier_off() functions.
> 
> Standard ->adjust_link functionality is provided by hooking a helper
> into the new ->phy_link_change method.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>


Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
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Florian