Subject: [PATCH 02/10] phy: Add configuration interface

From: [email-masked] (Andrew Lunn)
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 18:24:50 +0200

> > > +int phy_configure(struct phy *phy, enum phy_mode mode,
> > > +		  union phy_configure_opts *opts)
> > > +{
> > > +	int ret;
> > > +
> > > +	if (!phy)
> > > +		return -EINVAL;
> > > +
> > > +	if (!phy->ops->configure)
> > > +		return 0;
> > 
> > Shouldn't you report an error to the caller ? If a caller expects the PHY to 
> > be configurable, I would assume that silently ignoring the requested 
> > configuration won't work great.
> 
> I'm not sure. I also expect a device having to interact with multiple
> PHYs, some of them needing some configuration while some other do
> not. In that scenario, returning 0 seems to be the right thing to do.

You could return -EOPNOTSUPP. That is common in the network stack. The
caller then has the information to decide if it should keep going, or
return an error.

       Andrew