netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: add regs attribute to phy device for user diagnose

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Message-ID: <da255b0c-dba6-ef35-d436-3110d8492f95@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 14 Jan 2017 10:35:44 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, yuan linyu <cugyly@....com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        yuan linyu <Linyu.Yuan@...atel-sbell.com.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add regs attribute to phy device for user diagnose

On 01/14/2017 08:24 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 10:46:31AM +0800, yuan linyu wrote:
>> From: yuan linyu <Linyu.Yuan@...atel-sbell.com.cn>
>>
>> if phy device have register(s) configuration problem,
>> user can use this attribute to diagnose.
>> this feature need phy driver maintainer implement.
> 
> what is wrong with mii-tool -vv ?

Agreed, and without an actual user of this API (ethtool?), nor a PHY
driver implementing it, we cannot quite see how you want to make use of
this.

Thank you
-- 
Florian