netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: don't touch suspended flag if there's no suspend/resume callback

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Date:   Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:42:37 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: don't touch suspended flag if there's
 no suspend/resume callback



On 3/26/2020 10:58 AM, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> So far we set phydev->suspended to true in phy_suspend() even if the
> PHY driver doesn't implement the suspend callback. This applies
> accordingly for the resume path. The current behavior doesn't cause
> any issue I'd be aware of, but it's not logical and misleading,
> especially considering the description of the flag:
> "suspended: Set to true if this phy has been suspended successfully"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
-- 
Florian