From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756643AbbE2SEz (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2015 14:04:55 -0400 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch ([178.209.37.122]:47607 "EHLO vps0.lunn.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756444AbbE2SEq (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2015 14:04:46 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 19:59:13 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn To: Mathieu Olivari Cc: "'Florian Fainelli'" , robh+dt@kernel.org, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, galak@codeaurora.org, davem@davemloft.net, linux@roeck-us.net, gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com, jiri@resnulli.us, leitec@staticky.com, fabf@skynet.be, pavel.nakonechny@skitlab.ru, joe@perches.com, sfeldma@gmail.com, nbd@openwrt.org, juhosg@openwrt.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] net: dsa: ar8xxx: add regmap support Message-ID: <20150529175913.GB19580@lunn.ch> References: <1432863742-18427-1-git-send-email-mathieu@codeaurora.org> <1432863742-18427-4-git-send-email-mathieu@codeaurora.org> <5567C7B6.5060905@gmail.com> <20150529022329.GH11260@lunn.ch> <5567D0BA.5020409@gmail.com> <20150529024425.GI11260@lunn.ch> <005b01d09a36$0b77daa0$22678fe0$@codeaurora.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <005b01d09a36$0b77daa0$22678fe0$@codeaurora.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:36:49AM -0700, Mathieu Olivari wrote: > Alternatively, we could have something similar to what happens for the phy > in the wireless subsystems. Wireless PHYs are not registered as net_device > but they can still be listed, queried or configured through netlink. It is a reasonable idea, but you retrieve most of the useful information using ethtool. That, as far as i know, operates on net_devices, not phys. Andrew