From: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 02:28:57 +0100

On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 17:54 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:

quoted

From: Don Skidmore <redacted>

We will now need to store the phy address which we do in the hw->phy
struct. Likewise we no longer need the mdio struct in hw->phy along
with the mdio functions ixgbe_mdio_write(read) which have been
removed.  ixgbe_ioctl was no longer used and referenced hw->phy.mdio
so it was also removed.

The ioctl is for the benefit of user-space!

Indeed, this is completely bogus.  I'm not applying this.