netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: realtek: add generic Realtek PHY driver

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Date:   Sun, 03 Feb 2019 09:37:26 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...hat.com>
To:     hkallweit1@...il.com
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: realtek: add generic Realtek PHY
 driver

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2019 16:07:33 +0100

> The integrated PHY's of later RTL8168 network chips report the generic
> PHYID 0x001cc800 (Realtek OUI, model and revision number both set to
> zero) and therefore currently the genphy driver is used.
> 
> To be able to use the paged version of e.g. phy_write() we need a
> PHY driver with the read_page and write_page callbacks implemented.
> So basically make a copy of the genphy driver, just with the
> read_page and write_page callbacks being set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.