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From: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] mv643xx_eth: inter-mv643xx SMI port sharing
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:24:50 -0700
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 01:29:59AM +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> There exist chips with up to four mv643xx_eth silicon blocks but
> only one external SMI (MII management) interface -- the SMI logic
> of the first block is shared by all the blocks.
> 
> Handle this by allowing a per-port override of which
> mv643xx_eth_shared's SMI registers (and spinlock) to use.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>

Acked-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>