Dear "Kumar Nath, Chandan", In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > > I don't think the patch is correct or incorrect. It attempts to update > > the miiphy_* API to support larger register offsets. I'm suggesting > > that we shouldn't change the legacy API to support new features. > > There's no way to specify via miiphy_write that you want to write to a > > register with a 16-bit register offset, because there's no way to > > specify which device to write. > > > > > So I'm not saying we shouldn't apply this patch. I'm questioning why > > it was written in a hope that we can discourage new use of the old > > API. I'm also not convinced the patch helps anything. > > > > > Andy > > This patch was written to support PHY register whose address width is great> > er > than 8 bit. It was not written for 10 gig support.
The question remains: Why are you still using the old deprecated legacy API instead of the new one? You will need really good reasons to convince me. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] Save energy: Drive a smaller shell. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
