Re: [PATCH v5 12/13] net: phy: adin: add ethtool get_stats support

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Fri Aug 16 2019 - 09:24:41 EST


On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 04:10:10PM +0300, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:
> This change implements retrieving all the error counters from the PHY.
>
> The counters require that the RxErrCnt register (0x0014) be read first,
> after which copies of the counters are latched into the registers. This
> ensures that all registers read after RxErrCnt are synchronized at the
> moment that they are read.
>
> The counter values need to be accumulated by the driver, as each time that
> RxErrCnt is read, the values that are latched are the ones that have
> incremented from the last read.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Andrew