Accessng phy registers

[Alex Zeffertt]

DI BACCO ANTONIO - technolabs wrote:
 >
 > I saw that both in phy,c and mii.c (linux 2.6.19) there is support to
 > handle ioctls to read PHY registers. Why? And what should be used from a
 > user application? I have both CONFIG_MII and CONFIG_PHYLIB set to y.

Try "mii-tool -vv".  This uses the ioctls to extract the PHY registers.

If your ethernet driver doesn't support mii-tool it may support "ethtool"
instead.  Some drivers support both.

Alex

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