From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joakim Tjernlund Subject: Re: [PATCH] ucc_geth.c, make PHY device optional. Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:44:39 +0200 Message-ID: <1183567479.20673.225.camel@gentoo-jocke.transmode.se> References: <989B956029373F45A0B8AF0297081890D839B4@zch01exm26.fsl.freescale.net> Reply-To: joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linuxppc-dev Development , Netdev To: Segher Boessenkool Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linuxppc-dev-bounces+glppd-linuxppc64-dev=m.gmane.org@ozlabs.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+glppd-linuxppc64-dev=m.gmane.org@ozlabs.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 15:32 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > How about separate autoneg to a property "dumb-phy", which > > indicates the > > PHY/switch doesn't provide MII register interface. > > Something like that I suppose. But don't call it "dumb phy", > nor "fake phy", nor anything similar -- there simply is _no_ > phy. If the Linux code wants to pretend there is one, that's > one thing, but there is no need to do any of this trickery in > the device tree. > > > Therefore, it should > > use the fixed speed and duplex from device node rather than registers. > > Yes. Not sure I follow, something like this? initial-phy-capacity = no-mdio-interface autoneg does not fit in there. Jocke