netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/12] Preparing for phylib limkmodes

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Date:   Mon, 03 Sep 2018 19:44:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     andrew@...n.ch
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/12] Preparing for phylib limkmodes

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Date: Sun,  2 Sep 2018 19:06:29 +0200

> phylib currently makes us of a u32 bitmap for advertising, supported,
> and link partner capabilities. For a long time, this has been
> sufficient, for devices up to 1Gbps. With more MAC/PHY combinations
> now supporting speeds greater than 1Gbps, we have run out of
> bits. There is the need to replace this u32 with an
> __ETHTOOL_DECLARE_LINK_MODE_MASK, which makes use of linux's generic
> bitmaps.
> 
> This patchset does some of the work preparing for this change. A few
> cleanups are applied to PHY drivers. Some MAC drivers directly access
> members of phydev which are going to change type. These patches adds
> some helpers and swaps MAC drivers to use them, mostly dealing with
> Pause configuration.

Andrew, please fix the indentation issue Florian pointed out in patch
#8 and finish the other feedback threads which seem to still be in
progress.

Thanks!