From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] MDIO and ethtool enhancements Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:28:27 +0100 Message-ID: <1241054907.22157.24.camel@deadeye> References: <1241028086.3246.30.camel@achroite> <20090429.173128.241115147.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: eilong@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:33968 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751109AbZD3B2e (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:28:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090429.173128.241115147.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 17:31 -0700, David Miller wrote: [...] > > - Is it reasonable to carry on using the MII ioctl interface with flags? > > I don't know, I'm a little disappointed it's still around but > I suppose someone finds it useful. [...] It's definitely a useful debugging feature, though probably less important where the PHY driver is implemented in firmware. We also use it for field upgrades of PHY firmware. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.