netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 06/10] net: phylink: allow MAC driver to validate eee params

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Message-ID: <Z1hI6YvfdrIJkAbh@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:58:01 +0000
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	Bryan Whitehead <bryan.whitehead@...rochip.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Marcin Wojtas <marcin.s.wojtas@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 06/10] net: phylink: allow MAC driver to
 validate eee params

On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 09:58:40AM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> That could make mac_validate_tx_lpi() redundant, but then I have a
> stack of DSA patches that could use this callback to indicate that
> EEE is not supported.

Scratch that idea - DSA also needs the ethtool get_eee() method to
return -EOPNOTSUPP, which mac_validate_tx_lpi() wouldn't cover.

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