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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: convert mvneta to build_skb()
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:44:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130715214414.1f885ba8@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGVrzcYvFr8o+v=Ryc1GVA+7qTLGjxEUC3pB6t06YgTsmu0MAw@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Florian Fainelli,

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:52:44 +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote:

> > I still believe this is not the right fix, but unfortunately, I haven't
> > had the time to work on what would be the right fix. Hardware PHY
> > polling has been intentionally disabled, and the driver should work
> > without, since the PHY polling is done in software by the phylib.
> 
> You may now be able to use the PHY interrupt bit from your MAC
> interrupt handler and call phy_mac_interrupt() provided by libphy. I
> added it specifically to be able to use PHY link interrupts connected
> to the MAC.

Right, but the MAC feature in question makes the MAC directly talks to
the PHY to configure it, completely bypassing the entire libphy logic.
I am not sure how to handle this together with libphy.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-15 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-04 17:35 [PATCH] net: convert mvneta to build_skb() Willy Tarreau
2013-07-04 21:31 ` David Miller
2013-07-04 22:12   ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-05  7:17 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-07-05  7:43   ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-05  7:50     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-07-05  8:09       ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-15 14:34 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-07-15 15:12   ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-15 15:23     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-07-15 15:30       ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-15 15:35         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-07-15 15:52           ` Florian Fainelli
2013-07-15 17:01             ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-15 19:44             ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-07-15 23:02               ` Florian Fainelli

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