From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Cc: Colin Foster <colin.foster@in-advantage.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
"UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com" <UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com>,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@nxp.com>,
Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v1 net-next 6/8] net: dsa: felix: populate mac_capabilities for all ports
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 16:32:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yx9RK0bDba4s02qn@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220912114117.l2ufqv5forkpehif@skbuf>
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 11:41:18AM +0000, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 01:16:21PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > > Therefore, I think you can drop this patch from your series and
> > > you won't see any functional change.
> >
> > This is true. I am also a bit surprised at Colin's choices to
> > (b) split the work he submitted such that he populates mac_capabilities
> > but does not make any use of it (not call phylink_generic_validate
> > from anywhere). We try as much as possible to not leave dead code
> > behind in the mainline tree, even if future work is intended to
> > bring it to life. I do understand that this is an RFC so the patches
> > weren't intended to be applied as is, but it is still confusing to
> > review a change which, as you've correctly pointed out, has no
> > effect to the git tree as it stands.
>
> Ah, I retract this comment; after actually looking at all the patches, I
> do see that in patch 8/8, Colin does call phylink_generic_validate().
Good point, I obviously missed that in the series.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-12 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-11 20:02 [RFC v1 net-next 0/8] add support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys Colin Foster
2022-09-11 20:02 ` [RFC v1 net-next 1/8] net: mscc: ocelot: expose ocelot wm functions Colin Foster
2022-09-11 20:02 ` [RFC v1 net-next 2/8] net: mscc: ocelot: expose regfield definition to be used by other drivers Colin Foster
2022-09-12 15:47 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-09-16 17:44 ` Colin Foster
2022-09-16 22:36 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-09-11 20:02 ` [RFC v1 net-next 3/8] net: mscc: ocelot: expose stats layout " Colin Foster
2022-09-11 20:02 ` [RFC v1 net-next 4/8] net: mscc: ocelot: expose vcap_props structure Colin Foster
2022-09-11 20:02 ` [RFC v1 net-next 5/8] net: dsa: felix: add configurable device quirks Colin Foster
2022-09-11 20:02 ` [RFC v1 net-next 6/8] net: dsa: felix: populate mac_capabilities for all ports Colin Foster
2022-09-12 8:48 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-09-12 10:16 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-09-12 11:41 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-09-12 15:32 ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
2022-09-12 15:35 ` Colin Foster
2022-09-12 15:47 ` Colin Foster
2022-09-12 15:52 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-09-12 16:04 ` Colin Foster
2022-09-11 20:02 ` [RFC v1 net-next 7/8] mfd: ocelot: add regmaps for ocelot_ext Colin Foster
2022-09-12 17:08 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-09-12 19:04 ` Colin Foster
2022-09-12 20:23 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-09-12 21:03 ` Colin Foster
2022-09-12 21:53 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-09-11 20:02 ` [RFC v1 net-next 8/8] net: dsa: ocelot: add external ocelot switch control Colin Foster
2022-09-12 10:51 ` Lee Jones
2022-09-12 15:31 ` Colin Foster
2022-09-12 17:21 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-09-12 19:13 ` Colin Foster
2022-09-16 16:55 ` Colin Foster
2022-09-16 22:31 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-09-16 23:10 ` Colin Foster
2022-09-20 2:58 ` Colin Foster
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