Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/8] net: phy: meson-gxl: add read and write helpers for bank registers

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu Dec 07 2017 - 11:02:46 EST


> Banks actually comes from the datasheet, Yes.
> I don't mind renaming it but I would be making things up. As you wish ?

Keep it as is for the moment.

> Does the usual pages comes with this weird toggle thing to open the access ?
> Would we able to use these generic helpers with our this kind of quirks ?

I don't think the API has been defined yet. But what has been
discussed is adding functions to struct phy_driver. The driver can
then implement whatever is needed to select a given page. There will
then be helpers which take the lock, select the page, do the
read/write, select page 0, and unlock.

Supporting this funny toggle should not be a problem.

Andrew