netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: Don't assume loopback is supported

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Message-ID: <20190317183843.GE22226@lunn.ch>
Date:   Sun, 17 Mar 2019 19:38:43 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     Jose Abreu <jose.abreu@...opsys.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Joao Pinto <joao.pinto@...opsys.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: Don't assume loopback is supported

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 03:48:41PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 3/14/19 3:37 AM, Jose Abreu wrote:
> > Some PHYs may not support loopback mode so we need to check if register
> > is read-only.
> > 
> 
> In that case it may be appropriate to have a specific PHY driver that
> implements a set_loopback() method returning -EOPNOTSUPP instead of
> changing the generic PHY implementation.

Hi Jose

Since Heiner says this is a mandatory feature, we should not really
penalise conformant PHYs just because there is one broken PHY.

Please handle this in the PHY driver, by implementing the set_loopback
call.

	Andrew