Le 25/09/2016 à 08:36, Philippe Reynes a écrit :
> 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?
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c | 33 ++++++++++++-----------
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.h | 1 +
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmmii.c | 24 +++++++++--------
> 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>
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Florian
