On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 03:15:18PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:

Some devices expose memory-mapped c22-compliant PHYs. Because these
devices do not have an MDIO bus, we cannot use the existing helpers.
Refactor the existing helpers to allow supplying the values for c22
registers directly, instead of using MDIO to access them. Only get_state
and set_adversisement are converted, since they contain the most complex
logic.

I think this patch is useful on its own, there are certainly cases
where being able to hold the MII bus lock while reading the BMSR/LPA
registers would be advantageous. Please can you update the patch
against net-next and submit it?

Thanks.

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