Re: [PATCH] [NET] cpmac: convert to new Fixed PHY infrastructure

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 01:19:41PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> Anton,
>>
>> it looks like the "TI AR7 CPMAC Ethernet support" uses FIXED_PHY and  
>> was selecting FIXED_MII_100_FDX which is gone.
>>
>> Can you look into this.  I get the following warning now:
>>
>> scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> drivers/net/Kconfig:1713:warning: 'select' used by config symbol  
>> 'CPMAC' refers to undefined symbol 'FIXED_MII_100_FDX'
> 
> Wow. I thought there were no Fixed PHY users. :-)
> 
> Jeff, as you've already Acked Fixed PHY rework to go through powerpc
> tree, would you please Ack this patch in addition? I hope cpmac
> maintainer will fix remaining issues as time goes by.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - - - -
> From: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] [NET] cpmac: convert to new Fixed PHY infrastructure
> 
> This patch converts cpmac to the new Fixed PHY infrastructure, though it
> doesn't fix all the problems with that driver. I didn't even bother to
> test this patch to compile, because cpmac driver is broken in several ways:
> 
> 1. This driver won't compile by itself because lack of its header describing
>    platform data;
> 2. It assumes that fixed PHYs should be created by the ethernet driver.
>    It is wrong assumption: fixed PHYs creation is platform code authority,
>    driver must blindly accept bus_id and phy_id platform data variables
>    instead.
> 
> Also, it seem that that driver doesn't have actual in-tree users, so
> nothing to fix further.
> 
> The main purpose of that patch is to get rid of the following Kconfig
> warning:
> 
> scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> drivers/net/Kconfig:1713:warning: 'select' used by config symbol
> 'CPMAC' refers to undefined symbol 'FIXED_MII_100_FDX'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>

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