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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Madalin-cristian Bucur <madalin.bucur@nxp.com>
Cc: "jocke@infinera.com" <joakim.tjernlund@infinera.com>,
	"netdev @ vger . kernel . org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dpaa_eth: Add dpaa_change_carrier()
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 10:15:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181207091522.GA14223@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VI1PR04MB5567EBAB7DBF3A5E09388319ECAA0@VI1PR04MB5567.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>

On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 08:36:48AM +0000, Madalin-cristian Bucur wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@infinera.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2018 5:32 PM
> > To: netdev @ vger . kernel . org <netdev@vger.kernel.org>; Madalin-
> > cristian Bucur <madalin.bucur@nxp.com>
> > Cc: jocke@infinera.com <joakim.tjernlund@infinera.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH] dpaa_eth: Add dpaa_change_carrier()
> > 
> > This allows to control carrier from /sys/class/net/ethX/carrier
> 
> Hi,
> 
> can you please explain why it's needed?

Hi Madelin

See the patch:

[PATCH] gianfar: Add gfar_change_carrier()

Which is basically the same.

A better approach is being discussed. So for the moment, to stop DaveM
from merging this not knowing it is related to that patch:

NACK

	Andrew

      reply	other threads:[~2018-12-07  9:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-06 15:32 [PATCH] dpaa_eth: Add dpaa_change_carrier() Joakim Tjernlund
2018-12-07  8:36 ` Madalin-cristian Bucur
2018-12-07  9:15   ` Andrew Lunn [this message]

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