Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] r8152: configuration setting

[Oliver Neukum]

On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 13:02 +0000, Hayes Wang wrote:
> I tested above method before. And I found that the cdc_ether 
> was loaded before switching the configuration. The behavior 
> of loading one driver and changing to another driver has 
> opportunity to let our some previous chips become abnormal. 
> To switch configuration is fine. However, it may have problem 
> to switch driver. That is why the current kernel only supports 
> vendor mode. If the method works fine, I have no trouble now.

We may talk about creating extensions to cdc-ether, if they
are needed for the phy. What is unacceptable is to override
the configuration mechanism in the kernel.

	Regards
		Oliver