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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix ethernet driver for Octeon based Movidis
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Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 10:04:24 -0700
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On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:20:45PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
> Date: Thu,  1 Apr 2010 18:17:53 -0700
> 
> > The Movidis X16 bootloader doesn't enable the mdio bus.  The first
> > patch fixes this by enabling the mdio bus when the driver is
> > initialized.
> > 
> > Also the addresses of the PHYs was unknown for this device.  The
> > second patch adds the corresponding PHY addresses.
> > 
> > With both patches applied I can successfully use all eight Ethernet
> > ports.
> > 
> > Please consider for 2.6.34.  Since Octeon is an embedded MIPS SOC it
> > is unlikely to break the kernel for any workstations.  Any or all of
> > these could be considered for merging via Ralf's linux-mips.org tree.
> 
> Ralf please merge this via your MIPS tree, thanks:
> 
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

I agree, Ralf, please take these and you can add:
	Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
to them.

thanks,

greg k-h