Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] net: phy: at803x: paging support

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Thu Feb 18 2021 - 14:55:06 EST


On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:52:38PM +0100, Michael Walle wrote:
> Add paging support to the QCA AR8031/33 PHY. This will be needed if we
> add support for the .config_inband_aneg callback, see series [1].
>
> The driver itself already accesses the fiber page (without proper locking).
> The former version of this patchset converted the access to
> phy_read_paged(), but Vladimir Oltean mentioned that it is dead code.
> Therefore, the second patch will just remove it.
>
> changes since v1:
> - second patch will remove at803x_aneg_done() altogether

I'm pretty sure net-next is closed now, since David sent the pull
request, and I didn't come to a conclusion yet regarding the final
form of the phy_config_inband_aneg method either.