netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: phy: use phy_id

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Message-Id: <20181108.150527.993725135236462790.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 08 Nov 2018 15:05:27 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hkallweit1@...il.com
Cc:     f.fainelli@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: phy: use phy_id_mask value zero for
 exact match

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 21:52:31 +0100

> A phy_id_mask value zero means every PHYID matches, therefore
> value zero isn't used. So we can safely redefine the semantics
> of value zero to mean "exact match". This allows to avoid some
> boilerplate code in PHY driver configs.
> 
> Realtek PHY driver is the first user of this change.

It looks like there will be some changes to this series, so I will
wait for the next version.