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Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 02:51:18 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> To: Doug Berger <opendmb@...il.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>, Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] net: ethernet: introduce phy_set_pause On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 05:24:09PM -0700, Doug Berger wrote: > This commit introduces the phy_set_pause function to the phylib as > a helper to support the set_pauseparam ethtool method. > > It is hoped that the new behavior introduced by this function will > be widely embraced and the phy_set_sym_pause and phy_set_asym_pause > functions can be deprecated. Those functions are retained for all > existing users and for any desenting opinions on my interpretation > of the functionality. It would be good to add comments to phy_set_sym_pause and phy_set_asym_pause indicating they are deprecated and point to phy_set_pause(). Andrew
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