Re: [PATCH net-next v3 03/13] ax88179_178a: Use MMD accessor functions for AX88179A

From: Andrew Lunn

Date: Fri Jul 24 2026 - 09:31:06 EST


On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 09:36:46AM +0200, Birger Koblitz wrote:
> The AX88179A uses a much simpler Clause-45 MMD access interface,
> which are made available through ax_read_mmd() and ax_write_mmd(),
> which in turn call the chips' respective implementation.
>
> Make use of these functions for stract MMD read/write operations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Birger Koblitz <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I expect all this EEE code to go away once we have phylink code, and
phylib helpers accessing EEE registers. But as a step towards that,
this makes sense.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Andrew