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 20:30:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hkallweit1@...il.com
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, linux@...linux.org.uk,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: don't touch suspended flag if
 there's no suspend/resume callback

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 18:58:24 +0100

> 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>

Applied, thanks.