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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: YUAN Linyu <Linyu.Yuan@alcatel-sbell.com.cn>
Cc: Zefir Kurtisi <zefir.kurtisi@neratec.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"f.fainelli@gmail.com" <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	"cugyly@163.com" <cugyly@163.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add regs attribute to phy device for user diagnose
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 02:01:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170119010142.GB26959@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8729016553E3654398EA69218DA29EEF15A5A289@cnshjmbx04>

> I will add two ethtool command in kernel to read and write register in PHY. 

Write access will get NACKed by me. Read only please.

> ethtool can use these command to dump what user want, there is no
> more work to PHY driver.

Please think about how you handle PHYs with pages. This needs to be
part of the API.

     Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-19  1:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-14  2:46 [PATCH] net: add regs attribute to phy device for user diagnose yuan linyu
2017-01-14 16:24 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-01-14 18:35   ` Florian Fainelli
2017-01-15  1:51     ` yuan linyu
2017-01-15  1:57       ` Florian Fainelli
2017-01-15 10:40         ` yuan linyu
2017-01-15 17:21       ` Andrew Lunn
2017-01-16 12:59         ` yuan linyu
2017-01-16 20:22           ` Florian Fainelli
2017-01-16 21:54             ` David Miller
2017-01-17  0:11               ` YUAN Linyu
2017-01-18 12:37                 ` Zefir Kurtisi
2017-01-19  0:45                   ` YUAN Linyu
2017-01-19  1:01                     ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2017-02-11  3:48                       ` yuan linyu

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