From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 21:47:16 +0100
> Am 15.11.2017 um 22:56 schrieb Florian Fainelli: >> On 11/15/2017 01:42 PM, Heiner Kallweit wrote: >>> read_status and config_aneg are the only mandatory callbacks and most >>> of the time the generic implementation is used by drivers. >>> So make the core fall back to the generic version if a driver doesn't >>> implement the respective callback. >>> >>> Also currently the core doesn't seem to verify that drivers implement >>> the mandatory calls. If a driver doesn't do so we'd just get a NPE. >> >> Right, which is not an unusual way to signal that something is mandatory. >> >>> With this patch this potential issue doesn't exit any longer. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> >> >> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> >> >> Note that net-next is closed at the moment, so you will have to resubmit >> this when the tree opens back again. >> > I see that the two patches have status "deferred" in patchwork. > So do I have to actually resubmit or are they going to be be picked up > from patchwork? You must resubmit when the net-next tree opens back up.