Re: [PATCH 01/20] net: phy: realtek: Fix events detection failure in LPI mode
From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Date: 2021-02-11 10:44:40
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 07:47:20PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 10:56:46AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:quoted
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 11:37:29AM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:quoted
Right, adding something like a genphy_{read,write}_mmd() doesn't make too much sense for now. What I meant is just exporting mmd_phy_indirect(). Then you don't have to open-code the first three steps of a mmd read/write. And it requires no additional code in phylib.... but at the cost that the compiler can no longer inline that code, as I mentioned in my previous reply. (However, the cost of the accesses will be higher.) On the plus side, less I-cache footprint, and smaller kernel code.Just to note mmd_phy_indirect() isn't defined with inline specifier, but just as static and it's used twice in the drivers/net/phy/phy-core.c unit. So most likely the compiler won't inline the function code in there.
You can't always tell whether the compiler will inline a static function or not.
Anyway it's up to the PHY library maintainers to decide. Please settle the issue with Heiner and Andrew then. I am ok with both solutions and will do as you decide.
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