The flags argument of the phy_{attach,connect,connect_direct} functions
is then used to assign a struct phy_device dev_flags with its value.
All callers but the tg3 driver pass the flag 0, which results in the
underlying PHY drivers in drivers/net/phy/ not being able to actually
use any of the flags they would set in dev_flags. This patch gets rid of
the flags argument, and passes phydev->dev_flags to the internal PHY
library call phy_attach_direct() such that drivers which actually modify
a phy device dev_flags get the value preserved for use by the underlying
phy driver.
Acked-by: NKosta Zertsekel <konszert@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: NFlorian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adds the asix_set_eeprom() function to provide support for
programming the configuration EEPROM via ethtool.
Signed-off-by: NChristian Riesch <christian.riesch@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The current code for reading the EEPROM via ethtool in the asix
driver has a few issues. It cannot handle odd length values
(accesses must be aligned at 16 bit boundaries) and interprets the
offset provided by ethtool as 16 bit word offset instead as byte offset.

The new code for asix_get_eeprom() introduced by this patch is
modeled after the code in
drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_ethtool.c
and provides read access to the entire EEPROM with arbitrary
offsets and lengths.
Signed-off-by: NChristian Riesch <christian.riesch@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Return -ENOTSUPP if the initialization fails because the
device is configured for a mode that is not supported by the driver.
Signed-off-by: NChristian Riesch <christian.riesch@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The Asix AX88172A is a USB 2.0 Ethernet interface that supports both an
internal PHY as well as an external PHY (connected via MII).

This patch adds a driver for the AX88172A and provides support for
both modes and the phylib.
Signed-off-by: NChristian Riesch <christian.riesch@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>