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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: "Ivan T. Ivanov" <iivanov@suse.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: leds: Trigger leds only if PHY speed is known
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 16:39:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YRPhMen7jZZFe7pc@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <162867546407.30043.9226294532918992883@localhost>

> I think will be easier if we protect public phylib API internally with
> lock, otherwise it is easy to make mistakes, obviously. But still this
> will not protect users which directly dereference phy_device members.

Anybody directly dereference phy_device members, rather than going
through the API, is directly responsible for any breakage they
cause. This is not a supported use case.

       Andrew

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-11 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-16 14:11 [PATCH] net: phy: leds: Trigger leds only if PHY speed is known Ivan T. Ivanov
2021-07-16 15:19 ` Andrew Lunn
     [not found]   ` <162646032060.16633.4902744414139431224@localhost>
2021-07-19 15:29     ` Russell King (Oracle)
     [not found]       ` <162737250593.8289.392757192031571742@localhost>
     [not found]         ` <162806599009.5748.14837844278631256325@localhost>
2021-08-09 14:16           ` Russell King (Oracle)
     [not found]             ` <162867546407.30043.9226294532918992883@localhost>
2021-08-11 14:39               ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2021-08-11 15:10               ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-08-11 22:23             ` Andrew Lunn

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