Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] net: sparx5: Add Sparx5 switchdev driver

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 03:30:23PM +0100, Steen Hegelund wrote:
> On 29.11.2020 11:30, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
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> > On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 10:52:45AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> > > There are other issues too.
> > 
> > This is also wrong:
> > 
> > +               if (port->ndev && port->ndev->phydev)
> > +                       status->link = port->ndev->phydev->link;
> > 
> > phylink already deals with that situation.
> 
> So if I need the link state, what interface should I then use to get it?

The network carrier state reflects the link state. As I've said,
using the ethtool_op_get_link() is entirely suitable for the
ethtool .get_link method - other network drivers use this with
phylink and it works.

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