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From: <Woojung.Huh@microchip.com>
To: <f.fainelli@gmail.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <andrew@lunn.ch>, <rmk@armlinux.org.uk>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
	<cphealy@gmail.com>, <nikita.yoush@cogentembedded.com>,
	<vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>,
	<Nisar.Sayed@microchip.com>, <UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC net-next 4/5] net: phy: Add support for IEEE standard test modes
Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 00:02:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9235D6609DB808459E95D78E17F2E43D40D62045@CHN-SV-EXMX02.mchp-main.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6053df89-a77d-51bd-a72b-07f3cfa5fdde@gmail.com>

Hi Florian,

> Well, the way the code is structure is that if you call that function
> with a test mode value that is not part of the standard set, it returns
> -EOPNOTSUPP, so if your particular PHY driver wants to "overlay"
> standard and non-standard modes, it can by using that hint.
> 
> This should work even if we have more standard test modes in the future
> because the test modes are dynamically fetched by user-space using the
> ETH_GSTRINGS ioctl().
> 
> Does that cover what you had in mind?
Basically, agree on your explanation.

My idea was making genphy_set_test() more expandable for other test modes
because it would be a good place to add more standard test modes later.

No problem to keep current codes.

Thanks.
Woojung

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-07  0:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-28  0:32 [RFC net-next 0/5] Support for PHY " Florian Fainelli
2018-04-28  0:32 ` [RFC net-next 1/5] net: phy: Pass stringset argument to ethtool operations Florian Fainelli
2018-04-28  0:32 ` [RFC net-next 2/5] net: ethtool: Add UAPI for PHY test modes Florian Fainelli
2018-04-28  0:32 ` [RFC net-next 3/5] net: ethtool: Add plumbing to get/set " Florian Fainelli
2018-04-28  0:32 ` [RFC net-next 4/5] net: phy: Add support for IEEE standard " Florian Fainelli
2018-04-30 23:20   ` Andrew Lunn
2018-05-01 17:03     ` Florian Fainelli
2018-05-01 17:29   ` Woojung.Huh
2018-05-01 18:43     ` Florian Fainelli
2018-05-01 20:07       ` Woojung.Huh
2018-05-01 20:51         ` Florian Fainelli
2018-05-07  0:02           ` Woojung.Huh [this message]
2018-04-28  0:32 ` [RFC net-next 5/5] net: phy: broadcom: Add support for PHY " Florian Fainelli
2018-04-28  0:32 ` [PATCH ethtool 1/2] ethtool-copy.h: Sync with net-next Florian Fainelli
2018-04-28  0:32 ` [PATCH ethtool 2/2] ethtool: Add support for PHY test modes Florian Fainelli
2018-04-30  2:55 ` [RFC net-next 0/5] Support " David Miller
2018-04-30 16:30   ` Florian Fainelli
2018-04-30 16:40     ` Andrew Lunn
2018-04-30 19:23       ` Florian Fainelli
2018-04-30 23:24     ` Andrew Lunn
2018-05-01 17:21       ` Florian Fainelli
2018-05-01 17:47         ` Andrew Lunn
2018-05-01 18:27           ` Florian Fainelli
2018-05-01 19:59             ` Andrew Lunn
2018-05-01 18:06         ` David Miller

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