netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH] mdio: translation of MMD EEE registers to/from ethtool settings

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Message-Id: <20120822.225901.1361834659362538880.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 22 Aug 2012 22:59:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bruce.w.allan@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, peppe.cavallaro@...com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] mdio: translation of MMD EEE registers
 to/from ethtool settings

From: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:55:29 -0700

> The helper functions which translate IEEE MDIO Manageable Device (MMD)
> Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) registers 3.20, 7.60 and 7.61 to and from
> the comparable ethtool supported/advertised settings will be needed by
> drivers other than those in PHYLIB (e.g. e1000e in a follow-on patch).
> 
> In the same fashion as similar translation functions in linux/mii.h, move
> these functions from the PHYLIB core to the linux/mdio.h header file so the
> code will not have to be duplicated in each driver needing MMD-to-ethtool
> (and vice-versa) translations.  The function and some variable names have
> been renamed to be more descriptive.
> 
> Not tested on the only hardware that currently calls the related functions,
> stmmac, because I don't have access to any.  Has been compile tested and
> the translations have been tested on a locally modified version of e1000e.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>

Applied.
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