[RFC PATCH net-next 2/8] phy: introduce the PHY_MODE_ETHERNET_PHY mode for phy_set_mode_ext()

Vladimir Oltean vladimir.oltean at nxp.com
Mon Aug 21 11:15:22 PDT 2023


On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 07:14:04PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 06:06:38PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > As opposed to PHY_MODE_ETHERNET which takes a phy_interface_t as is
> > expected to be used by an Ethernet MAC driver, PHY_MODE_ETHERNET takes
> > an enum ethtool_link_mode_bit_indices and expects to be used by an
> > Ethernet PHY driver.
> 
> This doesn't seem to be correct. I think one of your PHY_MODE_ETHERNET
> above should be PHY_MODE_ETHERNET_PHY - but maybe instead it should
> be PHY_MODE_ETHTOOL so that it's clearly different and doesn't get
> confused with PHY_MODE_ETHERNET ?
> 
> -- 
> RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/
> FTTP is here! 80Mbps down 10Mbps up. Decent connectivity at last!

Correct, sorry for the incorrect commit description.

PHY_MODE_ETHTOOL would also work perfectly fine to me, and is more
explicit.



More information about the linux-phy mailing list