netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: initialise phydev speed and duplex sanely

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Date:   Sat, 23 Nov 2019 10:50:08 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: initialise phydev speed and duplex
 sanely

On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:23:23 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> When a phydev is created, the speed and duplex are set to zero and
> -1 respectively, rather than using the predefined SPEED_UNKNOWN and
> DUPLEX_UNKNOWN constants.
> 
> There is a window at initialisation time where we may report link
> down using the 0/-1 values.  Tidy this up and use the predefined
> constants, so debug doesn't complain with:
> 
> "Unsupported (update phy-core.c)/Unsupported (update phy-core.c)"
> 
> when the speed and duplex settings are printed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>

Applied, thank you!