Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/11] net: dsa: rework EEE support

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Aug 01 2017 - 23:10:03 EST


From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 16:32:30 -0400

> EEE implies configuring the port's PHY and MAC of both ends of the wire.
>
> The current EEE support in DSA mixes PHY and MAC configuration, which is
> bad because PHYs must be configured through a proper PHY driver. The DSA
> switch operations for EEE are only meant for configuring the port's MAC,
> which are integrated in the Ethernet switch device.
>
> This patchset fixes the EEE support in qca8k driver, makes the DSA layer
> call phy_init_eee for all drivers, and remove the EEE support from the
> mv88e6xxx driver since the Marvell PHY driver should be enough for it.
>
> Changes in v2:
> - make PHY device and DSA EEE ops mandatory for slave EEE operations.
> - simply return 0 in drivers which don't need to do anything to
> configure the port' MAC. Subsequent PHY calls will be enough.

Series applied, thanks Vivien.