netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] r8169: use rtl821x_modify_extpage exported from Realtek PHY driver

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Date:   Tue, 12 Nov 2019 19:56:03 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hkallweit1@...il.com
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, nic_swsd@...ltek.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] r8169: use rtl821x_modify_extpage
 exported from Realtek PHY driver

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 22:22:55 +0100

> Certain Realtek PHY's support a proprietary "extended page" access mode
> that is used in the Realtek PHY driver and in r8169 network driver.
> Let's implement it properly in the Realtek PHY driver and export it for
> use in other drivers like r8169.

Applied, but I really wish these deps worked more nicely.

Now I have to know what PHY drivers my ethernet card uses just to have
the main driver show up as a possible option in the Kconfig.  That's
not nice at all.