From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04706DDFEB for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:25:11 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <02FAED2A-1154-4D8B-A245-4693BF283515@kernel.crashing.org> From: Kumar Gala To: Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <47A0AF56.3060804@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Subject: Re: [PATCH] [NET] cpmac: convert to new Fixed PHY infrastructure Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:24:54 -0600 References: <416B8C5D-109C-4C03-807D-7EBB0AA9C366@kernel.crashing.org> <20080121204953.GA11384@localhost.localdomain> <47A0AF56.3060804@garzik.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev list , Eugene Konev , netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Jan 30, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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 >> 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 > > ACK Is this going through netdev or do you want me to pick it via the powerpc route? - k