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Russell King (Oracle)
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phylink has historically not permitted a PCS to be removed. An attempt to permit this with phylink_set_pcs() resulted in comments indicating that there was no need for this. This behaviour has been propagated forward to the mac_select_pcs() approach as it was believed from these comments that changing this would be NAK'd. However, with mac_select_pcs(), it takes more code and thus complexity to maintain this behaviour, which can - and in this case has - resulted in a bug. If mac_select_pcs() returns NULL for a particular interface type, but there is already a PCS in-use, then we skip the pcs_validate() method, but continue using the old PCS. Also, it wouldn't be expected behaviour by implementers of mac_select_pcs(). Allow this by removing this old unnecessary restriction. Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.