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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>
To: bage@linutronix•de
Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail•com>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux•org.uk>,
	davem@davemloft•net, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	Benedikt Spranger <b.spranger@linutronix•de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phy: phy_ethtool_ksettings_set: Don't discard phy_start_aneg's return
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 19:32:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YYV40/2N+2j02V/f@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211105153648.8337-1-bage@linutronix.de>

On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 04:36:48PM +0100, bage@linutronix•de wrote:
> From: Bastian Germann <bage@linutronix•de>
> 
> Take the return of phy_start_aneg into account so that ethtool will handle
> negotiation errors and not silently accept invalid input.

Hi Bastian

What PHY driver are you using this with? phy_start_aneg() generally
does not return errors, except for -EIO/-TIMEDOUT because
communication with the PHY has failed. All parameter validation should
of already happened before the call to phy_start_aneg(). So i'm
wondering if the PHY driver is doing something wrong.

The change itself however does seems sensible. If the PHY has
disappeared, returning -EIO would be valid.

    Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-05 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-05 15:36 [PATCH] phy: phy_ethtool_ksettings_set: Don't discard phy_start_aneg's return bage
2021-11-05 18:32 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2021-11-08 14:21   ` Bastian Germann
2021-11-06 21:52 ` Heiner Kallweit
2021-11-08 14:25   ` Bastian Germann
2021-11-10  8:14     ` Heiner Kallweit
2021-11-08 14:18 ` [PATCH net v2] net: " bage
2021-11-08 14:25   ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-11-08 15:06     ` Benedikt Spranger
2021-11-08 15:40       ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-11-08 16:09       ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-08 16:32         ` Bastian Germann
2021-11-08 17:57           ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-08 18:01             ` Heiner Kallweit
2021-11-08 18:06               ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-11-08 19:02               ` Benedikt Spranger
2021-11-08 19:35                 ` Heiner Kallweit
2021-11-09 18:29                 ` Florian Fainelli

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