Hi Andrew, On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:58:20PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > EXTERNAL EMAIL > > > > > In fact, this looks a lot like netdev features (e.g: checksum > > > offload), and there seems to be some commonality here between at > > > least Marvell and Microsemi (for the faster link down reporting), > > > so maybe we should start adding PHY features similar to netdev > > > features? > > > Sure. > > > > I would like add one flag in phy_device structure: > > u64 phy_features; > > > > In phy_driver structure, i would like to add 2 function pointer as > > > > int (*phy_featues_set)(struct phy_device *phydev); > > int (*phy_featues_get)(struct phy_device *phydev); > > > > All the PHY specific features i.e. Fast link failure -2, Downshift, Loopback etc > > are the case in feature_set/feature_get functions. > > Please follow how the ethertool features are implemented. So you need > to extend net/core/ethtool.c to pass these call down, etc. > Sure. I will do. Do i need to change Ethtool application and submit along with downshift driver patch (i.e. ethtool.c, phy.c, cpsw.c and mscc.c changes) ? > Andrew --- Thanks, Raju. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html