Re: [PATCH net 0/3] Fix integration of eee-broken-modes

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Dec 20 2016 - 13:51:40 EST


From: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 16:05:35 +0100

> The purpose of this series is to fix the integration of the ethernet phy
> property "eee-broken-modes" [0]
>
> The v3 of this series has been merged, missing a fix (error reported by
> kbuild robot) available in the v4 [1]
>
> More importantly, Florian opposed adding a DT property mapping a device
> register this directly [2]. The concern was that the property could be
> abused to implement platform configuration policy. After discussing it,
> I think we agreed that such information about the HW (defect) should appear
> in the platform DT. However, the preferred way is to add a boolean property
> for each EEE broken mode.
>
> [0]: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480326409-25419-1-git-send-email-jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [1]: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480348229-25672-1-git-send-email-jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [2]: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e14a3b0c-dc34-be14-48b3-518a0ad0c080@xxxxxxxxx

Series applied, thank you.