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

[Florian Fainelli]

Le 25/09/2016 Ã 08:49, Florian Fainelli a Ãcrit :
> 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?

An finally, indicate in the subject which tree you are targeting,
"net-next" or "net".
-- 
Florian