On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 09:41:46PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> Let genphy_c45_read_link manage the devices to check, this removes
> overhead from callers. Add C22EXT to the list of excluded devices
> because it doesn't implement the status register. According to the
> 802.3 clause 45 spec registers 29.0 - 29.4 are reserved.
>
> At the moment we have very few clause 45 PHY drivers, so we are
> lacking experience whether other drivers will have to exclude further
> devices, or may need to check PHY XS. If we should figure out that
> list of devices to check needs to be configurable, I think best will
> be to add a device list member to struct phy_driver.
>
> v2:
> - adjusted commit message
> - exclude also device C22EXT from link checking
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch>
Andrew
