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microchip: lan865x: add ndo_eth_ioctl handler to enable PHY ioctl support
authorParthiban Veerasooran <parthiban.veerasooran@microchip.com>
Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:45:49 +0000 (17:15 +0530)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Sat, 30 Aug 2025 02:11:54 +0000 (19:11 -0700)
commit34c21e91192aa1ff66f9d6cef8132717840d04e6
treeca7578fa260c61e3d35e7e285aa2ac5dc2ecab78
parent2a63607bfda920664aa7171dcca089cd4b273e31
microchip: lan865x: add ndo_eth_ioctl handler to enable PHY ioctl support

Introduce support for standard MII ioctl operations in the LAN865x
Ethernet driver by implementing the .ndo_eth_ioctl callback. This allows
PHY-related ioctl commands to be handled via phy_do_ioctl_running() and
enables support for ethtool and other user-space tools that rely on ioctl
interface to perform PHY register access using commands like SIOCGMIIREG
and SIOCSMIIREG.

This feature enables improved diagnostics and PHY configuration
capabilities from userspace.

Signed-off-by: Parthiban Veerasooran <parthiban.veerasooran@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250828114549.46116-1-parthiban.veerasooran@microchip.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan865x/lan865x.c