netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] Move KSZ9477 errata handling to PHY driver

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Message-ID: <8f512a9409ff824595855de5ef41b83776791715.camel@calian.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2023 00:13:15 +0000
From: Robert Hancock <robert.hancock@...ian.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] Move KSZ9477 errata handling to PHY driver

On Sat, 2023-06-03 at 02:04 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 05:40:17PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> > Patches to move handling for KSZ9477 PHY errata register fixes from
> > the DSA switch driver into the corresponding PHY driver, for more
> > proper layering and ordering.
> 
> 
> Hi Robert
> 
> Is it an issue when it is performed twice, both in the PHY and the
> DSA
> driver? This could happen if somebody was doing a git bisect and
> landed in the middle of these two.
> 
>        Andrew

I don't think you'd really end up in a worse position than without
either patch, it would just be doing some redundant register writes.

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Robert Hancock <robert.hancock@...ian.com>