From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Osterkamp Subject: Re: spidernet: dynamic phy setup code Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:50:51 +0100 Message-ID: <200702011150.52199.jens@de.ibm.com> References: <200701261409.29537.jens@de.ibm.com> <1169842902.24996.108.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ishizaki Kou , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org, Linas Vepstas , jgarzik@pobox.com, James K Lewis To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Return-path: Received: from mtagate6.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.155]:15144 "EHLO mtagate6.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422792AbXBAKu4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 05:50:56 -0500 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate6.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l11Aorqm070048 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:50:53 GMT Received: from d12av03.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av03.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.213]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.2) with ESMTP id l11Aorx71605716 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:50:53 +0100 Received: from d12av03.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av03.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l11AoqAR018052 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:50:53 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1169842902.24996.108.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Friday 26 January 2007 9:21 pm, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Can't we have a device-tree property indicating wether to use fiber or > copper ? Well, yes, I am sure we could, but what would be the benefit of doing so if we can get the same information dynamically ? Jens