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Date:   Sun, 22 Mar 2020 14:12:25 +0800
From:   Dejin Zheng <zhengdejin5@...il.com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, hkallweit1@...il.com, linux@...linux.org.uk,
        davem@...emloft.net, allison@...utok.net, tglx@...utronix.de,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, mchehab+samsung@...nel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 7/7] net: phy: use phy_read_poll_timeout() to
 simplify the code

On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 07:57:11PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 
> 
> On 3/21/2020 7:48 PM, Dejin Zheng wrote:
> > use phy_read_poll_timeout() to replace the poll codes for
> > simplify the code in phy_poll_reset() function.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dejin Zheng <zhengdejin5@...il.com>
> > ---
> > v2 -> v3:
> > 	- adapt to it after modifying the parameter order of the
> > 	  newly added function
> > v1 -> v2:
> > 	- remove the handle of phy_read()'s return error.
> > 
> >  drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 16 ++++------------
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
> > index a585faf8b844..cfe7aae35084 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
> > @@ -1059,23 +1059,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(phy_disconnect);
> >  static int phy_poll_reset(struct phy_device *phydev)
> >  {
> >  	/* Poll until the reset bit clears (50ms per retry == 0.6 sec) */
> > -	unsigned int retries = 12;
> > -	int ret;
> > -
> > -	do {
> > -		msleep(50);
> > -		ret = phy_read(phydev, MII_BMCR);
> 
> You are doing some subtle changes here, the sleep used to be *before*
> the read of BMCR and now it will be *after*. If there were PHY devices
> that required 50ms at least, but would incorrectly return that
> BMCR_RESET is cleared *before* 50ms, then we would be breaking those.
> 
> I would recommend we drop this patch for now, the rest looks good to me
> though.

Hi Florian��

Thanks very much for your comments, I will drop this patch, and can I get
your ack/reviewed-by for the rest patches? thanks again!

BR,
dejin

> -- 
> Florian