Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: improve handling link_change_notify callback

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On 12/3/2019 1:27 PM, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> Hi Andrew, Heiner,
> 
> Am Montag, 4. März 2019, 21:06:30 CET schrieb Andrew Lunn:
>> On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 11:30:25AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>>> From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 19:58:57 +0100
>>>
>>>> Currently the Phy driver's link_change_notify callback is called
>>>> whenever the state machine is run (every second if polling), no matter
>>>> whether the state changed or not. This isn't needed and may confuse
>>>> users considering the name of the callback. Therefore let's change
>>>> the behavior and call this callback only in case of an actual
>>>> state change.
>>>>
>>>> This requires changes to the at803x and rockchip drivers.
>>>> at803x can be simplified so that it reacts on a state change to
>>>> PHY_NOLINK only.
>>>> The rockchip driver can also be much simplified. We simply re-init
>>>> the AFE/DSP registers whenever we change to PHY_RUNNING and speed
>>>> is 100Mbps. This causes very small overhead because we do this even
>>>> if the speed was 100Mbps already. But this is neglectable and
>>>> I think justified by the much simpler code.
>>>>
>>>> Changes are compile-tested only.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Someone please review this.
>>
>> Hi David
>>
>> We should probably wait for a Tested-by: from Daniel Mack
>> <zonque@xxxxxxxxx> and David Wu <david.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, or
>> equivalent.
> 
> We should probably add them to the list of recipients if we want
> tests from them, which I've done now.
> 
> @David: patch in question that changes the Rockchip eth-phy is
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10837217/
> 
> Sadly I don't have matching hardware to test this myself.

Thanks for considering me, but I don't have access to that hardware
either right now.

The changes look straight forward to me however, so just go ahead an
apply this. Once I get back to that setup, I'll report in case of a
regression.


Thanks,
Dainel

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