netdev - Re: support for USB network devices without MDIO to report speed

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Date:   Thu, 7 Jan 2021 11:32:13 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, roland@...nel.org
Subject: Re: support for USB network devices without MDIO to report speed

On Thu,  7 Jan 2021 12:35:15 +0100 Oliver Neukum wrote:
> The assumption that a USB network devices would contain an MDIO
> accessible to the host is true only for a subset of genuine
> ethernet devices. It is not true for class devices like NCM.
> Hence an implementation purely internal to usbnet is needed.

Would you mind putting the standard prefix/tag on the cover letter
([PATCH 0/3])? It seems patchwork does not recognize the cover letter
otherwise.

Please keep checkpatch happy WRT alignment of continuation lines vs (