netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: rename PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT to PHY_MAC

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Message-ID: <90101c72-99a8-c12a-9278-d99d85c43767@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 14 Feb 2021 08:50:13 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Doug Berger <opendmb@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Byungho An <bh74.an@...sung.com>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: rename PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT to
 PHY_MAC_INTERRUPT



On 2/14/2021 6:16 AM, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> Some internal PHY's have their events like link change reported by the
> MAC interrupt. We have PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT to deal with this scenario.
> I'm not too happy with this name. We don't ignore interrupts, typically
> there is no interrupt exposed at a PHY level. So let's rename it to
> PHY_MAC_INTERRUPT. This is in line with phy_mac_interrupt(), which is
> called from the MAC interrupt handler to handle PHY events.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>

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

Thanks Heiner!
-- 
Florian