[PATCH RFC net-next 1/7] net: stmmac: remove unnecessary checks in ethtool eee ops
Andrew Lunn
andrew at lunn.ch
Mon Jul 28 10:03:57 PDT 2025
On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 04:45:32PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> Phylink will check whether the MAC supports the LPI methods in
> struct phylink_mac_ops, and return -EOPNOTSUPP if the LPI capabilities
> are not provided. stmmac doesn't provide LPI capabilities if
> priv->dma_cap.eee is not set.
>
> Therefore, checking the state of priv->dma_cap.eee in the ethtool ops
> and returning -EOPNOTSUPP is redundant - let phylink handle this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>
Andrew
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