From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: richardcochran@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] phylib: preserve ifreq parameter when calling generic phy_mii_ioctl()
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:03:14 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100705.190314.246518903.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3187f4618ad376027868b372df3c22c4c26ec3ec.1278307573.git.richard.cochran@omicron.at>
From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 07:33:03 +0200
> The phy_mii_ioctl() function unnecessarily throws away the original ifreq.
> We need access to the ifreq in order to support PHYs that can perform
> hardware time stamping.
>
> Two maverick drivers filter the ioctl commands passed to phy_mii_ioctl().
> This is unnecessary since phylib will check the command in any case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-06 2:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-05 5:30 [PATCH v2 0/4] Extend Time Stamping Richard Cochran
2010-07-05 5:31 ` [PATCH 1/4] net: add driver hooks for time stamping Richard Cochran
2010-07-06 2:03 ` David Miller
2010-07-06 2:39 ` David Miller
2010-07-05 5:32 ` [PATCH 2/4] phylib: add a way to make PHY time stamps possible Richard Cochran
2010-07-06 2:03 ` David Miller
2010-07-05 5:33 ` [PATCH 3/4] phylib: preserve ifreq parameter when calling generic phy_mii_ioctl() Richard Cochran
2010-07-06 2:03 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-07-05 5:33 ` [PATCH 4/4] phylib: Allow reading and writing a mii bus from atomic context Richard Cochran
2010-07-06 2:05 ` David Miller
2010-07-06 17:09 ` Andy Fleming
2010-07-07 7:18 ` Richard Cochran
2010-07-16 11:25 ` Richard Cochran
2010-07-16 11:49 ` Richard Cochran
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-06-28 15:33 [PATCH 0/4] Extend Time Stamping Richard Cochran
2010-06-28 15:34 ` [PATCH 3/4] phylib: preserve ifreq parameter when calling generic phy_mii_ioctl() Richard Cochran
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