netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 2/8] phy: introduce the PHY_MODE_ETHERNET_PHY mode for phy_set_mode

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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:14:04 +0100
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-phy@...ts.infradead.org,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@....com>,
	Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>,
	Camelia Groza <camelia.groza@....com>, Li Yang <leoyang.li@....com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>,
	Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@...o.com>,
	Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
	Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>,
	Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 2/8] phy: introduce the
 PHY_MODE_ETHERNET_PHY mode for phy_set_mode_ext()

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 06:06:38PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> As opposed to PHY_MODE_ETHERNET which takes a phy_interface_t as is
> expected to be used by an Ethernet MAC driver, PHY_MODE_ETHERNET takes
> an enum ethtool_link_mode_bit_indices and expects to be used by an
> Ethernet PHY driver.

This doesn't seem to be correct. I think one of your PHY_MODE_ETHERNET
above should be PHY_MODE_ETHERNET_PHY - but maybe instead it should
be PHY_MODE_ETHTOOL so that it's clearly different and doesn't get
confused with PHY_MODE_ETHERNET ?

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