From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: s.hauer@pengutronix.de
Cc: steve.glendinning@smsc.com,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux@arm.linux.org.uk, stanley.miao@windriver.com,
ian.saturley@smsc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] arm: convert pcm037 platform to use smsc911x
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:13:57 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090120.091357.93670796.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090120152951.GB21134@pengutronix.de>
From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:29:51 +0100
> I just gave it a try on our pcm037 board and it turns out that it
> doesn't work.
>
> The reason for this is not the driver, it's just that the hardware
> designers got the direction of the phy detect pin wrong. The pcm037 uses
> an internal phy, but the detection pin is pulled high :(
>
> The old driver worked around this by falling back to the internal phy
> when no valid phy id is detected. The new driver lacks this fallback.
>
> Instead of falling back we could also introduce a
> SMSC911X_FORCE_INTERNAL_PHY flag.
>
> What do you think?
You could pass this "invert detection pin" state in the platform
device private.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-20 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-20 13:28 [PATCH REPOST 0/6] convert arm platforms to smsc911x Steve Glendinning
2009-01-20 13:28 ` [PATCH 1/6] smsc911x: add support for platform-specific irq flags Steve Glendinning
2009-01-20 13:28 ` [PATCH 2/6] smsc911x: register isr as IRQF_SHARED Steve Glendinning
2009-01-20 13:28 ` [PATCH 3/6] arm: convert pcm037 platform to use smsc911x Steve Glendinning
2009-01-20 13:28 ` [PATCH 4/6] arm: convert realview " Steve Glendinning
2009-01-20 13:28 ` [PATCH 5/6] arm: update pcm037 defconfig " Steve Glendinning
2009-01-20 13:28 ` [PATCH 6/6] arm: update realview defconfigs " Steve Glendinning
2009-01-20 13:44 ` [PATCH 4/6] arm: convert realview platform " Catalin Marinas
2009-01-20 15:29 ` [PATCH 3/6] arm: convert pcm037 " Sascha Hauer
2009-01-20 17:13 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-01-21 10:58 ` Mark Brown
2009-01-21 14:38 ` Sascha Hauer
2009-01-20 14:55 ` [PATCH 1/6] smsc911x: add support for platform-specific irq flags Ben Dooks
2009-01-21 15:54 ` Steve.Glendinning
2009-01-26 1:45 ` David Miller
2009-01-26 8:45 ` Steve.Glendinning
2009-01-21 3:06 ` [PATCH 7/8] arm: convert omap ldp platform to use smsc911x Stanley.Miao
2009-01-21 3:06 ` [PATCH 8/8] arm: update omap_ldp defconfig " Stanley.Miao
2009-01-22 10:58 ` [PATCH 7/8] arm: convert omap ldp platform " Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-01-24 4:14 ` stanley.miao
2009-01-23 17:07 ` Steve.Glendinning
2009-01-24 4:16 ` stanley.miao
2009-01-24 3:38 ` [PATCHv2 " Stanley.Miao
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