netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: don't allow __set_phy

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Date:   Mon, 3 Dec 2018 14:25:12 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: don't allow __set_phy_supported to add
 unsupported modes

On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 08:19:33AM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> Currently __set_phy_supported allows to add modes w/o checking whether
> the PHY supports them. This is wrong, it should never add modes but
> only remove modes we don't want to support.
> 
> The commit marked as fixed didn't do anything wrong, it just copied
> existing functionality to the helper which is being fixed now.
> 
> Fixes: f3a6bd393c2c ("phylib: Add phy_set_max_speed helper")
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew