netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 06/11] net: phy: marvell: initialise link partner state earlier

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Message-ID: <20191217154543.GN17965@lunn.ch>
Date:   Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:45:43 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     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 06/11] net: phy: marvell: initialise link
 partner state earlier

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 01:39:26PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> Move the initialisation of the link partner state earlier, inside
> marvell_read_status_page(), so we don't have the same initialisation
> scattered amongst the other files.  This is in a similar place to
> the genphy implementation, so would result in the same behaviour if
> a PHY read error occurs.
> 
> This allows us to get rid of marvell_read_status_page_fixed(), which
> became a pointless wrapper around genphy_read_status_fixed().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>

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

    Andrew