netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 4/4] net: dsa: remove phylink

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Message-ID: <Y3J22TIKVAeipgsX@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:11:53 +0000
From:   "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@...o.com>,
        Colin Foster <colin.foster@...advantage.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 4/4] net: dsa: remove phylink_validate()
 method

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 07:07:30PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> As of now, no DSA driver uses a custom link mode validation procedure
> anymore. So remove this DSA operation and let phylink determine what is
> supported based on config->mac_capabilities (if provided by the driver).
> Leave a comment why we left the code that we did, and that there is more
> work to do.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

Yay!

Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>

Thanks.

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