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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] miitool: Add code to register a PHY
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:35 AM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Hi Andrey,
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 07:10:13PM -0800, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
>> This commit changes the behaviour of the 'miitool'. Now in order to show
>> PHY's link information 'miitool' should be invoked as such:
>>
>> miitool -s [PHY]
>>
>> Also, implment code to allow to register a dummy PHY device in order to
>> be able to perform raw MDIO bus access.
>
> These are not necessarily dummy phy devices, in fact if they were you
> wouldn't be interested in them ;)

Poor choice of words, perhaps :-). Now that I think of it I think
"driver-less" would be a better description.

>
> Do we need a way to register an individual phy? Wouldn't it be enough to
> add a -f(orce) option to register all phys on all busses even if there's
> nothing detected on them?

If we go with "-f" we would still overwhelm the /dev with a lot of
devices (in my use-case 96 of them), it's just we won't do that on the
first run on "miitool".

Andrey

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