Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Refactor nested mdiobus read/write functions

From: Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:18:31 +0200

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:37:45AM +0200, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> In order to avoid locked signal false positive for nested mdiobus
> read/write calls, nested code was introduced in mv88e6xxx and
> mdio-mux.
> But mv88e6060 also needs such nested mdiobus read/write calls.
> For sake of refactoring, introduce nested variants of mdiobus read/write
> and make them used by mv88e6xxx and mv88e6060.
> In a next patch, mdio-mux should also use these variant calls.
> 
> Neil Armstrong (3):
>   net: phy: Add nested variants of mdiobus read/write
>   net: dsa: Make mv88e6xxx use nested mdiobus read/write
>   net: dsa: Make mv88e6060 use nested mdiobus read/write
> 
>  drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6060.c |  4 ++--
>  drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx.c | 46 ++++++++-----------------------------
>  drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c  | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/phy.h         |  2 ++
>  4 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

Hi Neil

Thanks for refactoring.

Reviewd-by: Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]>
Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]>

I tested with a 88E6172 and lockdep enabled.

Thanks
  Andrew