On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 20:11 +0300, Igor Plyatov wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 16:12 +0300, Igor Plyatov wrote:
> >> * Due to HW bug, LAN8700 sometimes does not detect presence of energy in
> >> the
> >> Ethernet cable in Energy Detect Power-Down mode (e.g while EDPWRDOWN
> >> bit is
> >> set, the ENERGYON bit does not asserted sometimes). This is a common
> >> bug of
> >> LAN87xx family of PHY chips.
> >> * The lan87xx_read_status() was improved to acquire ENERGYON bit. Its
> >> previous
> >> algorythm still not reliable on 100 % and sometimes skip cable plugging.
> > []
> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/smsc.c b/drivers/net/phy/smsc.c
> > []
> >> @@ -104,10 +104,12 @@ static int lan911x_config_init(struct phy_device
> >> *phydev)
> >> static int lan87xx_read_status(struct phy_device *phydev)
> >> {
> >> int err = genphy_read_status(phydev);
> >> + int rc;
> > Is there a reason to move this declaration?
>
> There is no strict requirement to move declaration of the rc.
> It was made just to have all declarations easily visible.
Generally it's better to have declarations
in the minimal/narrowest scope possible.
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