netdev - Re: [net-next 1/2] net: phy: Expose the direct mdiobus access functions

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Message-ID: <20240910161934.7fafc5b3@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:19:34 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Niklas Söderlund
 <niklas.soderlund+renesas@...natech.se>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
 Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@...esas.com>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next 1/2] net: phy: Expose the direct mdiobus access
 functions

On Fri,  6 Sep 2024 11:39:54 +0200 Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> Expose the direct mdiobus read and write functions. These will be needed
> to refactor the SIOCGMIIREG and SIOCSMIIREG IOCTLs to fallback to
> indirect C45 access if needed.

I'm not sure Andrew is convinced in the sub-thread on patch 2, but also
I don't understand why you need patch 1 at all. The callers and callees
are in the same module are you're adding non-GPL exports, or am I
misreading?
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