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Russell King says: ==================== net: remove last of the phylink validate methods and clean up This four patch series removes the last of the phylink MAC .validate methods which can be found in the Freescale fman driver. fman has a requirement that half duplex may not be supported in RGMII mode, which is currently handled in its .validate method. In order to keep this functionality when removing the .validate method, we need to replace that with equivalent functionality, for which I propose the optional .mac_get_caps method in the first patch. The advantage of this approach over the .validate callback is that MAC drivers only have to deal with the MAC_* capabilities, and don't need to call back into phylink functions to do the masking of the ethtool linkmodes etc - which then becomes internal to phylink. This can be seen in the fourth patch where we make a load of these methods static. ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZS1Z5DDfHyjMryYu@shell.armlinux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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