Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/6] net: ethernet: implement OPEN Alliance control transaction interface

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> Ah ok, I think there is a misunderstanding here. This is related to OPEN 
> Alliance protocol. Control transactions consist of one or more control 
> commands. Control commands are used by the SPI host to read and write 
> registers within the MAC-PHY. Each control commands are composed of a 
> 32-bit control command header followed by register data. WNR (write not 
> read) bit in the control command header indicates if data is to be 
> written to registers (when set) or read from registers (when clear). so 
> basically it indicates the type of the control command on the registers.

OK, so this clearly indicates the names are bad and documentation is
missing if i got this completely wrong. Adding kerneldoc to these
functions should help.

	Andrew




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