Re: [PATCH] MII bus API for PHY devices

[Jason McMullan <jason.mcmullan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 13:50 -0600, Andy Fleming wrote:
> Jason McMullan said:
> >
> > Actually, each PHY should have it's own device directory, like every
> > other device. Eventually, PHYs should have /dev/phy* entries, where
> > user-space can read/write PHY registers.
> 
> I think you misunderstood.  Are you talking about sysfs?  I was talking 
> about actual source files.  i.e. should there be dm9161.c, m88e1101.c, 
> cis8201.c, etc.

        Yes, I am talking about sysfs. And yes, I think every PHY should have
it's own .c file. (although most people could get away with
using a non-IRQ 'drivers/net/phy/phy-generic.c'

> Also, do we need user-space to read/write PHY registers.  ethtool has 
> this capability, I believe, and the interfaces there are settled.

Doh! I forgot.

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Jason McMullan <jason.mcmullan@xxxxxxxxxxx>