netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169: improve conditional firmware loading for RTL8168d

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Date:   Sat, 16 Nov 2019 13:11:51 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hkallweit1@...il.com
Cc:     nic_swsd@...ltek.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169: improve conditional firmware loading
 for RTL8168d

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 21:35:22 +0100

> Using constant MII_EXPANSION is misleading here because register 0x06
> has a different meaning on page 0x0005. Here a proprietary PHY
> parameter is read by writing the parameter id to register 0x05 on page
> 0x0005, followed by reading the parameter value from register 0x06.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>

Applied.