netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/16] MDIO and ethtool enhancements

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Message-Id: <1241054907.22157.24.camel@deadeye>
Date:	Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:28:27 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eilong@...adcom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] MDIO and ethtool enhancements

On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 17:31 -0700, David Miller wrote:
[...]
> > - Is it reasonable to carry on using the MII ioctl interface with flags?
> 
> I don't know, I'm a little disappointed it's still around but
> I suppose someone finds it useful.
[...]

It's definitely a useful debugging feature, though probably less
important where the PHY driver is implemented in firmware.  We also use
it for field upgrades of PHY firmware.

Ben.

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