netdev - Re: [PATCH net-netx] net: lan78xx: add LAN7801 MAC-only support

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Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2016 15:57:08 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Woojung.Huh@...rochip.com, davem@...emloft.net, andrew@...n.ch
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-netx] net: lan78xx: add LAN7801 MAC-only support

On 11/29/2016 03:55 PM, Woojung.Huh@...rochip.com wrote:
>> There are two ways to get these settings propagated to the PHY driver:
>>
>> - using a board fixup which is going to be invoked during
>> drv->config_init() time
>>
>> - specifying a phydev->dev_flags and reading it from the PHY driver to
>> act upon and configure the PHY based on that value, there are only
>> 32-bits available though, and you need to make sure they are not
>> conflicting with other potential users in tree
>>
>> My preference would go with 1, since you could just register it in your
>> PHY driver and re-use the code you are proposing to include here.
> 
> Florian,
> 
> It seems phy_unregister_fixup() will be needed for module network driver.
> phy_fixup_list keeps the list even after unloading module.
> Do you know any update is waiting for submission? If not, I'll make patch.

Oh, yes, that's a good point, we need such a thing, so far fixups have
been exclusively used by code that is built-in, but there really is not
a reason for that. Please go ahead and cook a patch for this, thanks!
-- 
Florian