Re: [PATCH NET V5 2/2] net: hns: Use phy_driver to setup Phy loopback

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Sat Jul 01 2017 - 11:17:53 EST


On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 11:57:32AM +0000, linyunsheng wrote:
> Hi, Andrew
>
> I am agreed wih you on this.
> But self test is also a feature of our product, and our
> customer way choose to diagnose a problem using
> self test, even if self test does not give a clear
> reason to the problem.
> we don't want to remove a feature that we don't
> know when our customer will be using.

Far enough. So please take a close look at the code and try to fix
it. The corner cases are your problem, a down'ed interface, WOL, etc.
It is issues like this which can result in phy_resume() being called
without there first being a phy_suspend.

Andrew