From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] net: phy/mdio: enable mmd indirect access through phy_mii_ioctl()
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 17:41:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YYF4ZQHqc1jJsE/+@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bc9df441-49bf-5c8a-891c-cc3f0db00aba@ti.com>
On Tue, Nov 02, 2021 at 07:19:46PM +0200, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
> It would require MDIO bus lock, which is not a solution,
> or some sort of batch processing, like for mmd:
> w reg1 val1
> w reg2 val2
> w reg1 val3
> r reg2
>
> What Kernel interface do you have in mind?
That is roughly what I was thinking, but Andrew has basically said no
to it.
> Sry, but I have to note that demand for this become terribly high, min two pings in months
Feel free to continue demanding it, but it seems that at least two of
the phylib maintainers are in agreement that providing generic
emulation of C45 accesses in kernel space is just not going to happen.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-02 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-01 18:28 [RFC PATCH] net: phy/mdio: enable mmd indirect access through phy_mii_ioctl() Grygorii Strashko
2021-11-01 19:33 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-01 19:54 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-11-02 0:49 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-02 12:39 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-11-02 17:13 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-02 19:46 ` Sean Anderson
2021-11-02 23:38 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-11-04 15:05 ` Sean Anderson
2021-11-02 17:19 ` Grygorii Strashko
2021-11-02 17:41 ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
2021-11-02 18:37 ` Grygorii Strashko
2021-11-02 19:12 ` Grygorii Strashko
2021-11-02 21:46 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-02 22:22 ` Grygorii Strashko
2021-11-03 0:27 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-03 18:42 ` Grygorii Strashko
2021-11-03 19:36 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-04 11:17 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-11-04 12:35 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-11-04 12:40 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-11-04 13:13 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-11-04 13:06 ` Tobias Waldekranz
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