Re: [PATCH 0/3] ethernet: net: bcmgenet: only use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings

[Florian Fainelli]

Le 25/09/2016 Ã 08:36, Philippe Reynes a Ãcrit :
> Some times ago, a serie of patches were committed :
> - commit 62469c76007e ("net: ethernet: bcmgenet: use phydev from struct net_device")
> - commit 6b352ebccbcf ("net: ethernet: broadcom: bcmgenet: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings")
> The first patch add a regression on this driver, so it should be reverted.
> As the second patch depend on the former, it should be reverted too.
> 
> The first patch is buggy because there is a "trick" in this driver.
> The structure phydev is kept in the private data when the interface
> go down, and used when the interface go up to enable the phy before
> the function phy_connect is called.
> 
> I don't have this hardware, neither the datasheet. So I won't
> update the driver to avoid this trick.
> 
> But the real goal of the first serie was to move to the new api
> ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings. So I provide a new version of
> the patch without the "cleaning" of driver to use the phydev
> store in the net_device structure.
> 
> Jaedon Shin (1):
>   Revert "net: ethernet: bcmgenet: use phydev from struct net_device"

Please replace Jaedon's patch with mine which contains more background
as to what the problem was and how it gets fixed.

> 
> Philippe Reynes (2):
>   Revert "net: ethernet: bcmgenet: use new api
>     ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings"
>   net: ethernet: broadcom: bcmgenet: use new api
>     ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings

Can you be consistent in the subject and just use "net: bcmgenet: " as a
prefix here?

> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c |   33 ++++++++++++-----------
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.h |    1 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmmii.c   |   24 +++++++++--------
>  3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> 


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Florian