From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux•org.uk>
To: Yann Sionneau <ysionneau@kalray•eu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail•com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, jvetter@kalray•eu, jmaselbas@kalray•eu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phylink: check for pcs_ops being NULL
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:01:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YrHrZJLSDEky9b7w@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220621134917.24184-1-ysionneau@kalray.eu>
On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 03:49:17PM +0200, Yann Sionneau wrote:
> Out of tree drivers that have not been updated
> after 001f4261fe4d ("net: phylink: use legacy_pre_march2020") would not set the
> legacy_pre_march2020 boolean which if not initialized will default to false.
> Such drivers will most likely still be using the legacy interface and will
> not have pcs_ops.
... which means they're broken. The answer is not to patch phylink like
this, because even with this, it's likely that they are still broken.
They need to set legacy_pre_march2020.
Note that the legacy stuff will be going away - some of it, such as the
mac_pcs_an_restart() method will be going away, maybe in the next merge
window.
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2022-06-21 13:49 [PATCH] net: phylink: check for pcs_ops being NULL Yann Sionneau
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