netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/2] Bring back transceiver type for PHYLIB

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Date:   Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:20:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linville@...driver.com, decot@...glers.com,
        tremyfr@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] Bring back transceiver type for PHYLIB

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:52:12 -0700

> With the introduction of the xLINKSETTINGS ethtool APIs, the transceiver type
> was deprecated, but in that process we lost some useful information that PHYLIB
> was consistently reporting about internal vs. external PHYs.
> 
> This brings back transceiver as a read-only field that is only consumed in the
> legacy path where ETHTOOL_GET is called but the underlying drivers implement the
> new style klink_settings API.

Series applied, thanks Florian.