netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC v2 3/3] net: phy: allow EEE with SGMII interface modes

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Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:42:57 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 3/3] net: phy: allow EEE with SGMII interface modes

On 03/27/2017 01:15 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Here's the revised patch as requested.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 8<===
> From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
> Subject: [PATCH] net: phy: allow EEE with any interface mode
> 
> EEE is able to work in any PHY interface mode, there is nothing which
> fundamentally restricts it to only a few modes.  For example, EEE works
> in SGMII mode with the Marvell 88E1512.
> 
> Rather than just adding SGMII mode to the list, Florian suggests
> removing the list of interface modes entirely:
> 
>   It actually sounds like we should just kill the check entirely,
>   it does not appear that any of the interface mode would not
>   fundamentally be able to support EEE, because the "lowest" mode
>   we support is MII, and even there it's quite possible to support
>   EEE.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>

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

I think David will require you to resubmit this as an entire patch
series and without an RFC tag. Do you want to hold off a bit to get
build coverage or go ahead and target net-next right away?

Thanks!
-- 
Florian