subject:"\[PATCH net 0\/2\] Bring back transceiver type for PHYLIB"

Re: [PATCH net 0/2] Bring back transceiver type for PHYLIB

2017-09-21 Thread David Miller

From: Florian Fainelli Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:52:12 -0700 > With the introduction of the xLINKSETTINGS ethtool APIs, the transceiver type > was deprecated, but in that process we lost some useful information that > PHYLIB > was consistently reporting about internal vs.

[PATCH net 0/2] Bring back transceiver type for PHYLIB

2017-09-20 Thread Florian Fainelli

Hi With the introduction of the xLINKSETTINGS ethtool APIs, the transceiver type was deprecated, but in that process we lost some useful information that PHYLIB was consistently reporting about internal vs. external PHYs. This brings back transceiver as a read-only field that is only consumed in