linux-kernel - Re: [RFC net-next] net: phy: introduce phy_reg

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Message-ID: <da3937bc-8ea7-4f44-85d7-ed452d93ba9b@lunn.ch>
Date:   Fri, 31 Mar 2023 14:52:26 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     "Radu Pirea (OSS)" <radu-nicolae.pirea@....nxp.com>
Cc:     hkallweit1@...il.com, linux@...linux.org.uk, davem@...emloft.net,
        edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next] net: phy: introduce phy_reg_field interface

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 03:32:59PM +0300, Radu Pirea (OSS) wrote:
> Some PHYs can be heavily modified between revisions, and the addresses of
> the registers are changed and the register fields are moved from one
> register to another.
> 
> To integrate more PHYs in the same driver with the same register fields,
> but these register fields were located in different registers at
> different offsets, I introduced the phy_reg_fied structure.
> 
> phy_reg_fied structure abstracts the register fields differences.

Hi Radu

You should always include a user of a new API. It makes it easier to
understand and review if you see both sides of an API.

Please turn this into a patchset, and make use of this new functions
in a driver.

	Andrew