[PATCH v2 8/8] miitool: Add code to register a PHY

[Sascha Hauer]

Hi Andrey,

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 07:10:13PM -0800, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
> This commit changes the behaviour of the 'miitool'. Now in order to show
> PHY's link information 'miitool' should be invoked as such:
> 
> miitool -s [PHY]
> 
> Also, implment code to allow to register a dummy PHY device in order to
> be able to perform raw MDIO bus access.

These are not necessarily dummy phy devices, in fact if they were you
wouldn't be interested in them ;)

Do we need a way to register an individual phy? Wouldn't it be enough to
add a -f(orce) option to register all phys on all busses even if there's
nothing detected on them?

Sascha

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