netdev - Re: Link modes representation in phylib

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Message-ID: <20180629170959.26bb2a85@bootlin.com>
Date:   Fri, 29 Jun 2018 17:09:59 +0200
From:   Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net,
        Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>,
        "thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com" <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
Subject: Re: Link modes representation in phylib

Hello Andrew,

On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:43:43 +0200
Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:

>> Thanks for the suggestion. I see how this can be done with
>> phydrv->supported and phydev->lp_advertising, however I'm not sure how
>> we should deal with the fact that ethernet drivers directly access
>> fields such as "advertising" or "supported".  
>
>Hi Maxime
>
>I started cleaning up some of the MAC drivers. Take a look at
>
>https://github.com/lunn/linux.git v4.18-rc1-net-next-phy-cleanup
>
>That moved a lot of the MAC code into helpers, making it easier to
>update. It might make sense to add a couple of more helpers, for what
>remains.

Wow indeed that will help a lot. Just so that we're in sync, do you
plan to add those helpers, or should I take this branch as a base for
the conversion and go on ?

Thanks for this,

Maxime

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Maxime Chevallier, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com