netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 0/3 net-next] net: phy: disregard "Clause 22 registers present" bit in get_phy_c45_devs_in

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Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:19:00 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hkallweit1@...il.com
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3 net-next] net: phy: disregard "Clause 22
 registers present" bit in get_phy_c45_devs_in_pkg

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 20:19:17 +0100

> Bit 0 in register 1.5 doesn't represent a device but is a flag that
> Clause 22 registers are present. Therefore disregard this bit when
> populating the device list. If code needs this information it
> should read register 1.5 directly instead of accessing the device
> list.
> Because this bit doesn't represent a device don't define a
> MDIO_MMD_XYZ constant, just define a MDIO_DEVS_XYZ constant for
> the flag in the device list bitmap.
 ...

This doesn't apply cleanly to net-next, please respin.

Thanks.