Re: MII access (was [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only)

[Jeff Garzik]

Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> With clearer mind, I have to make some a correction to one of the previous
> messages: the problem of not checking arguments range does not apply to
> 3c59x which has in the ioctl function '& 0x1f' for both transceiver number
> and register number. However, eepro100 and tulip don't do that. (I'm
> checking now with 2.4.3 from Mandrake 8, but I don't think that there were
> recent changes in these areas).

half right -- tulip does this for the phy id but not the MII register
number.  I'll fix that up.  Please bug Andrey about fixing up
eepro100...

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