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Date:   Thu, 10 Jun 2021 12:04:03 +0200
From:   Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
To:     "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc:     Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@microchip.com>,
        UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, kernel@pengutronix.de,
        netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Michael Grzeschik <m.grzeschik@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 8/9] net: dsa: dsa_slave_phy_connect():
 extend phy's flags with port specific phy flags
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On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 04:08:11PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 06:30:36AM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> > This patch extends the flags of the phy that's being connected with the
> > port specific flags of the switch port.
> > 
> > This is needed to handle a port specific erratum of the KSZ8873 switch,
> > which is added in a later patch.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/phy/phylink.c | 2 +-
> >  net/dsa/slave.c           | 4 ++++
> >  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
> > index 96d8e88b4e46..167c2277814f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c
> > @@ -1029,7 +1029,7 @@ static int phylink_attach_phy(struct phylink *pl, struct phy_device *phy,
> >  	if (pl->phydev)
> >  		return -EBUSY;
> >  
> > -	return phy_attach_direct(pl->netdev, phy, 0, interface);
> > +	return phy_attach_direct(pl->netdev, phy, phy->dev_flags, interface);
> 
> I don't think this has any benefit. phy_attach_direct() does this
> internally:
> 
>         phydev->dev_flags |= flags;
> 
> which means the above change is effectively doing:
> 
>         phydev->dev_flags |= phydev->dev_flags;
> 
> So, are you sure you need this?

Ah, good point. Back for two years, phy_attach_direct() was doing
	phydev->dev_flags = flags;

I didn't noticed this change.

Regards,
Oleksij
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