netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: dsa: abstract PHY accesses

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Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:44:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel@...oirfairelinux.com, f.fainelli@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: dsa: abstract PHY accesses

From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 17:18:56 -0400

> The Marvell 88E6xxx switch chips have different way to access the PHY
> devices registers. 
> 
> Old chips use a direct access to the PHY registers. Next chips have a
> PHY Polling Unit (PPU) which needs to be disabled before accessing PHY
> registers. Newer chips have an indirect access to the PHY devices so
> that disabling the PPU is not necessary.
> 
> This patchset abstracts these accesses behind a new mv88e6xxx_phy_* API.
> 
> It also has the side effect to fix the temperature access code for
> 88E61xx chips which were using the wrong PHY access functions.

Looks good, series applied, thanks.