Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MII bus API for PHY devices | From | Jason McMullan <> | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:00:47 -0500 |
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On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 13:50 -0600, Andy Fleming wrote: > Jason McMullan said: > > > > Actually, each PHY should have it's own device directory, like every > > other device. Eventually, PHYs should have /dev/phy* entries, where > > user-space can read/write PHY registers. > > I think you misunderstood. Are you talking about sysfs? I was talking > about actual source files. i.e. should there be dm9161.c, m88e1101.c, > cis8201.c, etc.
Yes, I am talking about sysfs. And yes, I think every PHY should have it's own .c file. (although most people could get away with using a non-IRQ 'drivers/net/phy/phy-generic.c'
> Also, do we need user-space to read/write PHY registers. ethtool has > this capability, I believe, and the interfaces there are settled.
Doh! I forgot.
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