Re: [PATCH 10/11] net: dsa: Use PHYLINK for the CPU/DSA ports

[Florian Fainelli]

On 5/27/2019 2:22 PM, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> For DSA switches that do not have an .adjust_link callback, aka those
> who transitioned totally to the PHYLINK-compliant API, use PHYLINK to
> drive the CPU/DSA ports.
> 
> The PHYLIB usage and .adjust_link are kept but deprecated, and users are
> asked to transition from it.  The reason why we can't do anything for
> them is because PHYLINK does not wrap the fixed-link state behind a
> phydev object, so we cannot wrap .phylink_mac_config into .adjust_link
> unless we fabricate a phy_device structure.
> 
> For these ports, the newly introduced PHYLINK_DEV operation type is
> used and the dsa_switch device structure is passed to PHYLINK for
> printing purposes.  The handling of the PHYLINK_NETDEV and PHYLINK_DEV
> PHYLINK instances is common from the perspective of the driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.cior...@nxp.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olte...@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com>
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Florian