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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. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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