netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: mdio-mux: fix C45 access returning -EIO after API change

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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:01:34 +0300
From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: mdio-mux: fix C45 access returning -EIO after
 API change

On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 03:44:58PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Maybe make these conditional on the parent bus implementing the c45
> > read/write ops?
> 
> And optionally, for net-next, make the c22 read/write ops conditional
> on the parent bus having C22 as well. Its a bit of a corner case, but
> there are a couple of MDIO bus masters which are C45 only.
> 
> Not having C45 is however very common, so we should make this
> conditional as part of the fix.
> 
>       Andrew

Ok. I don't know if net-next will remain open after this patch gets
accepted and "net" gets merged back into it, so in order to not
completely forget, I'll add a patch with your suggestion to our
Layerscape SDK and that will serve as a reminder for the next
upstreaming session.

In the meantime, for this patch:

pw-bot: cr