Re: [PATCH 07/11] net: phylink: Add PHYLINK_DEV operation type

[Florian Fainelli]

On 5/27/2019 2:22 PM, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> In the PHYLINK_DEV operation type, the PHYLINK infrastructure can work
> without an attached net_device. For printing usecases, instead, a struct
> device * should be passed to PHYLINK using the phylink_config structure.
> 
> Also, netif_carrier_* calls ar guarded by the presence of a valid
> net_device. When using the PHYLINK_DEV operation type, we cannot check
> link status using the netif_carrier_ok() API so instead, keep an
> internal state of the MAC and call mac_link_{down,up} only when the link
> changed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.cior...@nxp.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olte...@gmail.com>

Should not this patch be re-ordered to be after patch #8? Other than that:

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