[PATCH/RFC v2 net-next 1/4] phylib: Add phy_set_max_speed helper

[Simon Horman]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 09:14:34PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Le 09/10/15 19:01, Simon Horman a écrit :
> > Add a helper to allow ethernet drivers to limit the speed of a phy
> > (that they are attached to).
> > 
> > This mainly involves factoring out the business-end of
> > of_set_phy_supported() and exporting a new symbol.
> > 
> > This code seems to be open coded in several places, in several different
> > variants.
> > 
> > This code is envisaged this will be used in situations where setting
> > the "max-speed" property is not appropriate, e.g. because the maximum
> > speed is not a property of the phy hardware.
> 
> This looks good to me, one minor comment, see below:
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas at verge.net.au>
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > v2
> > * First post
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> >  include/linux/phy.h          |  1 +
> >  2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
> > index c0f211127274..d9a020095972 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
> > @@ -1205,6 +1205,37 @@ static int gen10g_resume(struct phy_device *phydev)
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> >  
> > +static void __set_phy_supported(struct phy_device *phydev, u32 max_speed)
> > +{
> > +	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OF_MDIO))
> > +		return;
> 
> I think that part should be moved to of_set_phy_supported(), since your
> are exporting phy_set_max_speed() which should therefore be available
> regardless of whether Device Tree is used.

Yes of course, silly me.

> While you are it, it might be nice to either warn or return -ENOTSUPP if
> the speed does not match 10, 100 or 1000, but that might be worth a
> second patch.

Sure, that sounds reasonable.