netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/4] net: add phylink support for PCS

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Message-Id: <20200317.225141.823903193683551749.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 17 Mar 2020 22:51:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     linux@...linux.org.uk
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, hkallweit1@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/4] net: add phylink support for PCS

From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:49:06 +0000

> This series adds support for IEEE 802.3 register set compliant PCS
> for phylink.  In order to do this, we:
> 
> 1. convert BUG_ON() in existing accessors to WARN_ON_ONCE() and return
>    an error.
> 2. add accessors for modifying a MDIO device register, and use them in
>    phylib, rather than duplicating the code from phylib.
> 3. add support for decoding the advertisement from clause 22 compatible
>    register sets for clause 37 advertisements and SGMII advertisements.
> 4. add support for clause 45 register sets for 10GBASE-R PCS.
> 
> These have been tested on the LX2160A Clearfog-CX platform.
> 
> v2: eliminate use of BUG_ON() in the accessors.

Series applied, thanks.