[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-net] ice: fix incorrect PHY settings for 100 GB/s

Richard Cochran richardcochran at gmail.com
Thu Nov 28 19:59:06 UTC 2024


On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 05:20:44PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:

> "only Intel's driver" is a bit of a worry. Part of being a Maintainer
> is to ensure that all drivers behave the same. There should not be any
> difference between an Intel PTP device, a Marvell PTP devices, a
> Microchip PTP device etc. They should all implement the API in a
> uniform way.

Yes, and I appreciate it being on CC even for driver changes.

> What i have also seen is that if one driver gets something wrong,
> other drivers might as well.

Yeah, unfortunately there are many device drivers (not just
PTP/network drivers) that get things wrong.  These are then copied by
the authors of new drivers, and so on.

Thanks,
Richard


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