netdev - Re: [PATCH] fec: Restart PPS after link state change

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Date:   Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:30:40 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Csókás Bence <csokas.bence@...lan.hu>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fec: Restart PPS after link state change

> `fep->pps_enable` is the state of the PPS the driver *believes* to be the
> case. After a reset, this belief may or may not be true anymore: if the
> driver believed formerly that the PPS is down, then after a reset, its
> belief will still be correct, thus nothing needs to be done about the
> situation. If, however, the driver thought that PPS was up, after controller
> reset, it no longer holds, so we need to update our world-view
> (`fep->pps_enable = 0;`), and then correct for the fact that PPS just
> unexpectedly stopped.

Your way of doing it just seems very unclean. I would make
fec_ptp_enable_pps() read the actual status from the
hardware. fep->pps_enable then has the clear meaning of user space
requested it should be enabled.

	  Andrew