netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC net 1/2] net: dsa: lantiq_gswip: Don't use PHY auto polling

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Message-ID: <CAFBinCBE7BtEvDF044BeONCfCAaJOTYNkTTkhTJidaM97BQmYQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 7 Apr 2021 22:28:08 +0200
From:   Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        vivien.didelot@...il.com, olteanv@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
        linux@...linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net 1/2] net: dsa: lantiq_gswip: Don't use PHY auto polling

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 9:44 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:
>
> > For my own curiosity: is there a "recommended" way where to configure
> > link up/down, speed, duplex and flow control? currently I have the
> > logic in both, .phylink_mac_config and .phylink_mac_link_up.
>
> You probably want to read the documentation in
>
> include/linux/phylink.h
it turns out that I should have scrolled down in that file.
there's a perfect explanation in it about the various functions, just
not at the top.
thanks for the hint!

For my own reference:
[...] @state->link [...] are never guaranteed to be correct, and so
any mac_config() implementation must never reference these fields.
I am referencing state->link so I will fix that in v2

[...] drivers may use @state->speed, @state->duplex and @state->pause
to configure the MAC, but this is deprecated; such drivers should be
converted to use mac_link_up
so I will also drop these also from the gswip_phylink_mac_config implementation

If dropping the modifications to gswip_phylink_mac_config is my only change:
do you want me to keep or drop your Reviewed-by in v2?


Best regards,
Martin