Merge branch 'phylink-sfp-updates'
Russell King says:
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phylink/sfp updates
This is a series of updates to phylink and sfp:
- Remove an unused net device argument from the phylink MII ioctl
emulation code.
- add support for using interrupts when using a GPIO for link status
tracking, rather than polling it at one second intervals. This
reduces the need to wakeup the CPU every second.
- add support to the MII ioctl API to read and write Clause 45 PHY
registers. I don't know how desirable this is for mainline, but I
have used this facility extensively to investigate the Marvell
88x3310 PHY. A recent illustration of use for this was debugging
the PHY-without-firmware problem recently reported.
- add mandatory attach/detach methods for the upstream side of sfp
bus code, which will allow us to remove the "netdev" structure from
the SFP layers.
- remove the "netdev" structure from the SFP upstream registration
calls, which simplifies PHY to SFP links.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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