netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: improve genphy_read

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Date:   Mon, 01 Apr 2019 18:07:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hkallweit1@...il.com
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: improve genphy_read_status

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 10:22:45 +0100

> This patch improves few aspects of genphy_read_status():
> 
> - Don't initialize lpagb, it's not needed.
> 
> - Move initializing phydev->speed et al before the if clause.
> 
> - In auto-neg case, skip populating lp_advertising if we
>   don't have a link. This avoids quite some unnecessary
>   MDIO reads in case of phylib polling mode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>

I decided that I'm not going to push back on this patch purely on the
issue of not touching the conditional ordering.

Applied, thanks Heiner.