From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from de01egw01.freescale.net (de01egw01.freescale.net [192.88.165.102]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B936685E6 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:41:30 +1100 (EST) Received: from de01smr02.am.mot.com (de01smr02.freescale.net [10.208.0.151]) by de01egw01.freescale.net (8.12.11/de01egw01) with ESMTP id j9V1odQQ028461 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:50:39 -0700 (MST) Received: from az33exm43.am.freescale.net (az33exm43.am.freescale.net [10.64.34.249]) by de01smr02.am.mot.com (8.13.1/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j9V0hDCI007614 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:43:14 -0600 (CST) From: Matthew McClintock To: Wolfgang Denk In-Reply-To: <20051030151847.C4383353416@atlas.denx.de> References: <20051030151847.C4383353416@atlas.denx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:41:00 -0600 Message-Id: <1130719261.7470.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: use of phy_connect() in drivers/net/gianfar.c ? List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 08:18 -0700, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > As far as I understand there are patches in the -mm tree with > contain=20 > > the updates for the Gianfar driver. The issue is due to a >=20 > Do you happen to know of a specific (set of) patch(es)? URL? I believe this is the patch, however Andy can let you know for sure on Monday if I am wrong. http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-October/020178.html >=20 > > synchronization issue with the new PHY abstraction layer that was > added. >=20 > Yes, obviously. But I am still so na=C3=AFve to expect that such change= s=20 > would not make it untested (the code is not even compile clean) to an=20 > official kernel release like 2.6.14 ? I assure you we made our best effort to get it all in, but it did not work out like we wanted. -Matthew