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Date:   Mon, 30 Jul 2018 21:06:14 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v2 10/17] ethtool: implement GET_SETTINGS
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> +    ETHA_SETTINGS_MDIO_SUPPORT	(bitfield32)	MDIO support flags

Now might be a good time to drop this. The mdio drivers don't have
this information. There is no API between the MAC driver and the MDIO
driver to ask for it. Only a couple of drivers which ignore the kernel
MDIO code set this.

     Andrew