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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent•org.uk>
To: Philippe Reynes <tremyfr@gmail•com>,
	f.fainelli@gmail•com, fugang.duan@nxp•com, davem@davemloft•net
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: phy: add ethtool_phy_{get|set}_link_ksettings
Date: Sat, 07 May 2016 12:59:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1462622397.19332.28.camel@decadent.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1462576729-5932-1-git-send-email-tremyfr@gmail.com>

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On Sat, 2016-05-07 at 01:18 +0200, Philippe Reynes wrote:
> The callback {get|set}_link_ksettings are often defined
> in a very close way. There are mainly two differences in
> those callback:
> - the name of the netdev private structure
> - the name of the struct phydev in the private structure
> 
> We add two defines ethtool_phy_{get|set}_link_ksettings
> to avoid writing severals times almost the same function.
[...]

I don't think there's no need to access a private structure, as there's
a phydev pointer in struct net_device.  If some drivers don't maintain
that pointer, they should be changed to do so.  Then they can 
use generic implementations of {get,set}_link_ksettings provided by
phylib.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Editing code like this is akin to sticking plasters on the bleeding stump
of a severed limb. - me, 29 June 1999

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-07 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-06 23:18 [PATCH 1/2] net: phy: add ethtool_phy_{get|set}_link_ksettings Philippe Reynes
2016-05-06 23:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] net: ethernet: fec: use ethtool_phy_{get|set}_link_ksettings Philippe Reynes
2016-05-06 23:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] net: phy: add ethtool_phy_{get|set}_link_ksettings Florian Fainelli
2016-05-07 11:59 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2016-05-07 22:56   ` Philippe Reynes
2016-05-08  0:13     ` Ben Hutchings
2016-05-08 18:19     ` Florian Fainelli

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