RE: [PATCH] net: add regs attribute to phy device for user diagnose

[YUAN Linyu]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller [mailto:da...@davemloft.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 5:54 AM
> To: f.faine...@gmail.com
> Cc: cug...@163.com; and...@lunn.ch; netdev@vger.kernel.org; YUAN Linyu
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add regs attribute to phy device for user diagnose
> 
> From: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:22:16 -0800
> 
> >
> > So why not add support in ethtool for reading PHY registers if you need
> > it? There are handful of PHY "things" in ethtool, such as reading
> > counters, configuring downshift etc., adding support for dumping
> > registers does not sound out of space.
Thanks, I will try this direction.
> 
> Agreed.