> 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