netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/5] net: phylink: move manual flow control setting

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Message-ID: <Zy5QHQMyZOuOZQ7t@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 17:53:33 +0000
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
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>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/5] net: phylink: move manual flow control
 setting

On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 06:34:04PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 04:01:44PM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > Move the handling of manual flow control configuration to a common
> > location during resolve. We currently evaluate this for all but
> > fixed links.
> 
> I could be mis-remembering, but i thought somebody recently mentioned
> they wanted manual control for flow control for fixed links.

I haven't seen that request, but I do have a patch prepared in case
someone does want it.

> Am i missing something? Other than you want to keep the current
> behaviour.

Indeed - this is a cleanup series, not a functional change series.

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