Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: ethernet: bcmgenet: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Tue Jul 05 2016 - 00:30:34 EST


Le 04/07/2016 16:03, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Philippe Reynes <tremyfr@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 17:33:57 +0200
>
>> There are two generics functions phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings,
>> so we can use them instead of defining the same code in the driver.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Reynes <tremyfr@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Applied.
>

The transformation is not equivalent, we lost the checks on
netif_running() in the process, and those are here for a reason, if the
interface is down and therefore clock gated, MDIO accesses to the PHY
will simply fail outright and cause bus errors.

Philippe, have you tested this?
--
Florian