On 11/22/2016 12:13 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> PHY drivers should be able to rely on the caller of {get,set}_tunable to
> have acquired the PHY device mutex, in order to both serialize against
> concurrent calls of these functions, but also against PHY state machine
> changes. All ethtool PHY-level functions do this, except
> {get,set}_tunable, so we make them consistent here as well.
>
> Fixes: 968ad9da7e0e ("ethtool: Implements
> ETHTOOL_PHY_GTUNABLE/ETHTOOL_PHY_STUNABLE")
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com>
David, please discard, this is going to create problems for the
Microsemi PHY driver since it also acquires phydev->lock. (patch has
been marked accordingly in patchwork.
Thanks!
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Florian
