netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/3] net: bcmgenet: only use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link

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Date:   Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:18:07 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Philippe Reynes <tremyfr@...il.com>, jaedon.shin@...il.com,
        davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/3] net: bcmgenet: only use new api
 ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings

On 09/26/2016 01:31 PM, Philippe Reynes wrote:
> Some times ago, a serie of patches were committed :
> - commit 62469c76007e ("net: ethernet: bcmgenet: use phydev from struct net_device")
> - commit 6b352ebccbcf ("net: ethernet: broadcom: bcmgenet: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings")
> The first patch add a regression on this driver, so it should be reverted.
> As the second patch depend on the former, it should be reverted too.
> 
> The first patch is buggy because there is a "trick" in this driver.
> The structure phydev is kept in the private data when the interface
> go down, and used when the interface go up to enable the phy before
> the function phy_connect is called.
> 
> I don't have this hardware, neither the datasheet. So I won't
> update the driver to avoid this trick.
> 
> But the real goal of the first serie was to move to the new api
> ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings. So I provide a new version of
> the patch without the "cleaning" of driver to use the phydev
> store in the net_device structure.

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

Thanks!
-- 
Florian