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From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se
Cc: scottwood@freescale.com,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
	linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] phylib: don't create a phydev for ID-less PHYs.
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:06:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804111006.04708.sr@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1207897589.9544.13.camel@gentoo-jocke.transmode.se>

On Friday 11 April 2008, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 13:51 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > In addition to marking 0x0 as an invalid PHY ID, I've also
> > changed the existing somewhat useless printk to actually
> > list the bus IDs where it found a PHY so we get a basic
> > bus summary.
>
> PHY ID 0x0 isn't an invalid id, I got a Broadcom PHY that has
> PHY ID=0. Maybe I am misunderstanding something?

IIRC, address 0 is the PHY broadcast address, but can be used without problem 
with some PHY's. I remember some designs were we had the PHY at address 0.

Best regards,
Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-11  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-10 17:51 [PATCH 0/5] dynamic detection of gianfar TPIPA Paul Gortmaker
2008-04-10 17:51 ` [PATCH 1/5] phylib: don't create a phydev for ID-less PHYs Paul Gortmaker
2008-04-10 17:51   ` [PATCH 2/5] gianfar: assign mii_bus value in dev->priv Paul Gortmaker
2008-04-10 17:52     ` [PATCH 3/5] gianfar: limit scope of gfar_local_mdio functions Paul Gortmaker
2008-04-10 17:52       ` [PATCH 4/5] gianfar: dont hog the mii_bus->priv with just the regs Paul Gortmaker
2008-04-10 17:52         ` [PATCH 5/5] gianfar: don't hard code the TBIPA MDIO address Paul Gortmaker
2008-04-11  7:06   ` [PATCH 1/5] phylib: don't create a phydev for ID-less PHYs Joakim Tjernlund
2008-04-11  8:06     ` Stefan Roese [this message]
2008-04-11 10:47       ` Joakim Tjernlund
2008-04-11 13:54         ` Grant Likely
2008-04-10 22:17 ` [PATCH 0/5] dynamic detection of gianfar TPIPA David Miller
2008-04-10 23:30 ` Andy Fleming
2008-04-11  3:34   ` Paul Gortmaker

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