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Date:   Mon, 10 Oct 2022 23:44:06 +0800
From:   "Soha Jin" <soha@...u.info>
To:     "'Andrew Lunn'" <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     "'Heiner Kallweit'" <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "'David S. Miller'" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "'Eric Dumazet'" <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "'Jakub Kicinski'" <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "'Paolo Abeni'" <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        "'Russell King'" <linux@...linux.org.uk>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] net: mdiobus: add fwnode_phy_is_fixed_link()

Hello Andrew,

> From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2022 11:03 PM
> 
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 12:20:06AM +0800, Soha Jin wrote:
> > A helper function to check if PHY is fixed link with fwnode properties.
> > This is similar to of_phy_is_fixed_link.
> 
> You need to include a user of this new function.

Greg already notified me about this. I was thinking this patch and my
driver patches are on different trees, so I split the patches into
different parts. I will include this patch in my driver patch's v2 later
and ask you to review then. Sorry for the mistake.

> Also, not that ACPI only defines the 'new binding' for fixed-link.  If this is
> being called on a device which is ACPI underneath, it should only return true
> for the 'new binding', not the old binding.

Thanks for the information, I will correct this.

Regards,
Soha