From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, broonie@sirena.org.uk, jgarzik@pobox.com,
thockin@hockin.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/9] natsemi: Add support for using MII port with no PHY
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:54:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <445094F2.1060807@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604270932.k3R9W5lK025315@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
akpm@osdl.org wrote:
> From: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
>
> Provide a module option which configures the natsemi driver to use the
> external MII port on the chip but ignore any PHYs that may be attached to it.
> The link state will be left as it was when the driver started and can be
> configured via ethtool. Any PHYs that are present can be accessed via the MII
> ioctl()s.
>
> This is useful for systems where the device is connected without a PHY or
> where either information or actions outside the scope of the driver are
> required in order to use the PHYs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
> Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
NAK.
The proper way to do this is via the force_media boolean flag found in
several net drivers.
In general I agree with the motivation to do something like this...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-27 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-27 9:30 [patch 3/9] natsemi: Add support for using MII port with no PHY akpm
2006-04-27 9:54 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-04-28 13:01 ` Mark Brown
2006-05-03 11:07 ` Jeff Garzik
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