Re: [PATCH net-next v4 05/15] net: phy: Create a phy_port for PHY-driven SFPs

[Andrew Lunn]

> > Please be careful with the scope of these. Heiner is going through
> > phylib and trying to reduce the scope of some of the functions we
> > exporting in include/linux/phy.h to just being available in
> > drivers/net/phy. That will help stop MAC drivers abuse them. We should
> > do the same here, limit what can actually use these helpers to stop
> > abuse.
> 
> Can we consider having an header file sitting in drivers/net/phy
> directly for this kind of things ?

Yes, we then only need to worry about phy drivers, not MAC
drivers. PHY driver writers tend to abuse things less.

	Andrew