netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] Introduce supported interfaces bitmap

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Date:   Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:20:08 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Russell King (Oracle) <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, hkallweit1@...il.com, sean.anderson@...o.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] Introduce supported interfaces bitmap

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (master)
by David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:

On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:05:36 +0100 you wrote:
> This series introduces a new bitmap to allow us to indicate which
> phy_interface_t modes are supported.
> 
> Currently, phylink will call ->validate with PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_NA to
> request all link mode capabilities from the MAC driver before choosing
> an interface to use. This leads in some cases to some rather hairly
> code. This can be simplified if phylink is aware of the interface modes
> that  the MAC supports, and it can instead walk those modes, calling
> ->validate for each one, and combining the results.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next,1/3] net: phy: add phy_interface_t bitmap support
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/8e20f591f204
  - [net-next,2/3] net: phylink: add MAC phy_interface_t bitmap
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/38c310eb46f5
  - [net-next,3/3] net: phylink: use supported_interfaces for phylink validation
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/d25f3a74f30a

You are awesome, thank you!
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