netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 1/2] mdio: Export mdio.h to userland

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Date:	Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:42:01 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 1/2] mdio: Export mdio.h to userland

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 00:23:27 +0000

> The ID packing definitions are needed by userland and the register
> definitions may also be useful there.
> 
> Do not export mdio_phy_id_{is_c45,prtad,devad}() as the use of bool is
> problematic and it's not that useful to export only a subset of these.
> 
> Do not export MDIO_SUPPORTS_{C22,C45} directly; these flags are only
> exposed to userland through struct ethtool_cmd so they should be
> defined alongside that with appropriate names.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Applied, although I had to fixup trailing whitespace:

> +#ifdef __KERNEL__ 

here.
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