Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 02/14] net: phy: at803x: move disable WOL for 8031 from probe to config

From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:24:32 +0000

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 03:12:07AM +0100, Christian Marangi wrote:
> Probe should be used only for DT parsing and allocate required priv, it
> shouldn't touch regs, there is config_init for that.

I'm not sure where you get that idea from. PHY driver probe() functions
are permitted to access registers to do any setup that they wish to.

config_init() is to configure the PHY for use with the network
interface.

I think this patch is just noise rather than a cleanup.

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