[PATCH RFCv2 0/6] net: phy: Ethernet PHY powerdown optimization
Florian Fainelli
f.fainelli at gmail.com
Thu Dec 5 19:16:32 EST 2013
2013/12/4 Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm at ti.com>:
> On Wednesday 04 December 2013 09:14 PM, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>> This is v2 of an RFC sent earlier [1] to reduce power consumption of network
>> PHYs with link that are either unused or the corresponding netdev is down.
>>
>> In contrast to RFCv1, this now integrates phy_suspend/phy_resume transparent
>> to the netdev drivers. Also, phy_suspend now only suspends the PHY if WOL is
>> disabled. Moreover, the phy state machine calls phy_suspend on entering
>> HALTED state.
>>
>> Again, a branch with RFCv2 applied to v3.13-rc2 can also be found at
>> https://github.com/shesselba/linux-dove.git topic/ethphy-power-rfc-v2
>>
>> [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/574426/
>>
>> Sebastian Hesselbarth (6):
>> net: mv643xx_eth: properly start/stop phy device
>> net: phy: marvell: provide genphy suspend/resume
>> net: phy: provide phy_resume/phy_suspend helpers
>> net: phy: resume/suspend PHYs on attach/detach
>> net: phy: suspend unused PHYs on mdio_bus in late_initcall
>> net: phy: suspend phydev when going to HALTED
>>
>> drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c | 4 +++-
>> drivers/net/phy/marvell.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>> drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 6 +++++-
>> drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> include/linux/phy.h | 2 ++
>> 6 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> ---
>> Cc: David Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
>> Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm at ti.com>
>> Cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
>> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Apart form Sergei's comment the patch series looks good to me.
>
> Acked-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm at ti.com>
Looks good to me as well:
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
Thanks Sebastian!
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Florian
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