Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: phy: add ethtool_phy_{get|set}_link_ksettings
From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Fri May 06 2016 - 19:41:46 EST
On 06/05/16 16:18, Philippe Reynes wrote:
> The callback {get|set}_link_ksettings are often defined
> in a very close way. There are mainly two differences in
> those callback:
> - the name of the netdev private structure
> - the name of the struct phydev in the private structure
>
> We add two defines ethtool_phy_{get|set}_link_ksettings
> to avoid writing severals times almost the same function.
This looks fine in principle, but then there is a whole ton of code that
could become like that in the kernel, I do not have any strong opinion
either way...
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Florian