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Date:   Thu, 9 Dec 2021 13:14:55 +0000
From:   "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Chris Snook <chris.snook@...il.com>, Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>,
        Mark Lee <Mark-MC.Lee@...iatek.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/5] net: phylink: add legacy_pre_march2020
 indicator

This series was incorrectly threaded to its cover letter; the patches
have now been re-sent with the correct message-ID for their cover
letter. Sadly, this mistake was not obvious until I looked at patchwork
to work out why they haven't been applied yet.

On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 03:53:37PM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> Add a boolean to phylink_config to indicate whether a driver has not
> been updated for the changes in commit 7cceb599d15d ("net: phylink:
> avoid mac_config calls"), and thus are reliant on the old behaviour.
> 
> We were currently keying the phylink behaviour on the presence of a
> PCS, but this is sub-optimal for modern drivers that may not have a
> PCS.
> 
> This commit merely introduces the new flag, but does not add any use,
> since we need all legacy drivers to set this flag before it can be
> used. Once these legacy drivers have been updated, we can remove this
> flag.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
> ---
>  include/linux/phylink.h | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/phylink.h b/include/linux/phylink.h
> index 01224235df0f..d005b8e36048 100644
> --- a/include/linux/phylink.h
> +++ b/include/linux/phylink.h
> @@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ enum phylink_op_type {
>   * struct phylink_config - PHYLINK configuration structure
>   * @dev: a pointer to a struct device associated with the MAC
>   * @type: operation type of PHYLINK instance
> + * @legacy_pre_march2020: driver has not been updated for March 2020 updates
> + *	(See commit 7cceb599d15d ("net: phylink: avoid mac_config calls")
>   * @pcs_poll: MAC PCS cannot provide link change interrupt
>   * @poll_fixed_state: if true, starts link_poll,
>   *		      if MAC link is at %MLO_AN_FIXED mode.
> @@ -97,6 +99,7 @@ enum phylink_op_type {
>  struct phylink_config {
>  	struct device *dev;
>  	enum phylink_op_type type;
> +	bool legacy_pre_march2020;
>  	bool pcs_poll;
>  	bool poll_fixed_state;
>  	bool ovr_an_inband;
> -- 
> 2.30.2
> 
> 

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