From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: f.fainelli@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/8] net: phy: Broadcom BCM7xxx PHY workaround update
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:27:34 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140919.162734.2072914871245072340.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1411157276-18260-1-git-send-email-f.fainelli@gmail.com>
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 13:07:48 -0700
> This patch sets the change to of_phy_connect() that you have seen before,
> this time with the full context of why it is useful and applicable here.
>
> Due to some design decision, the internal PHY on Broadcom BCM7xxx chips
> is not entirely self contained and does not report its internal revision
> through MII_PHYSID2, that is left to external PHY designs.
>
> This forces us to get the PHY revision from the GENET and SF2 switch drivers
> because those two peripherals integrate such a PHY and do contain the PHY
> revision in their registers.
>
> The approach taken here is hopefully easy to extend to similar needs for
> other chips/ as well.
Applied, thanks for fixing things up so fast.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-19 20:07 [PATCH net-next v2 0/8] net: phy: Broadcom BCM7xxx PHY workaround update Florian Fainelli
2014-09-19 20:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/8] of: mdio: honor flags passed to of_phy_connect Florian Fainelli
2014-09-19 20:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/8] net: phy: broadcom: add helper for PHY revision and patch level Florian Fainelli
2014-09-19 20:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/8] net: phy: bcm7xxx: do not use PHY_BRCM_100MBPS_WAR Florian Fainelli
2014-09-19 20:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/8] net: bcmgenet: remove PHY_BRCM_100MBPS_WAR Florian Fainelli
2014-09-19 20:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 5/8] net: bcmgenet: communicate integrated PHY revision to PHY driver Florian Fainelli
2014-09-19 20:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 6/8] net: dsa: allow switch drivers to specify phy_device::dev_flags Florian Fainelli
2014-09-19 20:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 7/8] net: dsa: bcm_sf2: communicate integrated PHY revision to PHY driver Florian Fainelli
2014-09-19 20:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 8/8] net: phy: bcm7xxx: utilize PHY revision in config_init Florian Fainelli
2014-09-19 20:27 ` David Miller [this message]
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