[PATCH net-next 0/6] net: phylink: rearrange ovr_an_inband support

[Andrew Halaney]

On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 02:28:42PM GMT, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This series addresses the use of the ovr_an_inband flag, which is used
> by two drivers to indicate to phylink that they wish to use inband mode
> without firmware specifying inband mode.
> 
> The issue with ovr_an_inband is that it overrides not only PHY mode,
> but also fixed-link mode. Both of the drivers that set this flag
> contain code to detect when fixed-link mode will be used, and then
> either avoid setting it or explicitly clear the flag. This is
> wasteful when phylink already knows this.
> 
> Therefore, the approach taken in this patch set is to replace the
> ovr_an_inband flag with a default_an_inband flag which means that
> phylink defaults to MLO_AN_INBAND instead of MLO_AN_PHY, and will
> allow that default to be overriden if firmware specifies a fixed-link.
> This allows users of ovr_an_inband to be simplified.
> 
> What's more is this requires minimal changes in phylink to allow this
> new mode of operation.
> 
> This series changes phylink, and also updates the two drivers
> (fman_memac and stmmac), and then removes the unnecessary complexity
> from the drivers.
> 
> This series may depend on the stmmac cleanup series I've posted
> earlier - this is something I have not checked, but I currently have
> these patches on top of that series.
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_memac.c  | 16 ++++++----------
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-intel.c | 15 ++-------------
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c |  4 ++--
>  drivers/net/phy/phylink.c                         | 11 ++++++++---
>  include/linux/phylink.h                           |  5 +++--
>  include/linux/stmmac.h                            |  2 +-
>  6 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> 
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This all seems more clear to me now for what it is worth:

Reviewed-by: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney at redhat.com>