netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] net: phy: sfp: Separate enumerations and states

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Date:   Wed, 8 Nov 2017 08:58:04 +0000
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, andrew@...n.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] net: phy: sfp: Separate enumerations and
 states

On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 07:49:10PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Create separate enumerations for the SFP physical state (computed from GPIOs),
> device state, module state, and actual state machine. This will make it easier
> to make sure the correct states are used, and also pretty print those to help
> debugging.

The compiler does no type checking of these, so I don't see how it
makes it any "easier to make sure the correct states are used".

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