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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.

  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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