netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 00/22] Support MDIO devices

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jan 2016 21:14:34 +0100
From:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 00/22] Support MDIO devices

On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 02:33:57PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
> Date: Wed,  6 Jan 2016 20:11:05 +0100
> 
> > The discussions about changing the way DSA probes switches resulted in
> > the wish to have switches attached to an MDIO bus to be represented as
> > an MDIO device. However the current code only supports PHYs on MDIO
> > busses. This patchset remedies this problem. It consists of a number
> > of cleanups, abstraction for accessing structure members, and
> > refactoring, as well as adding the concept of a generic MDIO device
> > and MDIO driver.
> > 
> > v2:
> > Added Reviewed-by from Florian
> > Made phydev_name() an inline function
> > Added phy_attached_info/phy_attached_print() for information about
> > the attached phy.
> > Removed now redundant irq setup from of_mdio.c
> > Dropped hunks from PHYMII ioctl which prevented access to any address
> > DSA carrier off before phy setup
> 
> Series applied, thanks Andrew.

Hi Dave

You might get some build failures from less well used
architectures/drivers.  I've got a couple of 0-day emails i need to
send fixups for.

     Andrew