Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/6] net: ethernet: implement OPEN Alliance control transaction interface

From: Parthiban.Veerasooran
Date: Thu Sep 21 2023 - 14:38:36 EST


Hi Andrew,

On 20/09/23 7:07 pm, Andrew Lunn wrote:
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>> Ah ok, I think there is a misunderstanding here. This is related to OPEN
>> Alliance protocol. Control transactions consist of one or more control
>> commands. Control commands are used by the SPI host to read and write
>> registers within the MAC-PHY. Each control commands are composed of a
>> 32-bit control command header followed by register data. WNR (write not
>> read) bit in the control command header indicates if data is to be
>> written to registers (when set) or read from registers (when clear). so
>> basically it indicates the type of the control command on the registers.
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> OK, so this clearly indicates the names are bad and documentation is
> missing if i got this completely wrong. Adding kerneldoc to these
> functions should help.
Sure, I will do that.
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> Andrew
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