From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] [NET] cpmac: convert to new Fixed PHY infrastructure Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:09:42 -0500 Message-ID: <47A0AF56.3060804@garzik.org> References: <416B8C5D-109C-4C03-807D-7EBB0AA9C366@kernel.crashing.org> <20080121204953.GA11384@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Kumar Gala , linuxppc-dev list , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Eugene Konev To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:50048 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756143AbYA3RJz (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:09:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080121204953.GA11384@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Anton Vorontsov wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 01:19:41PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: >> Anton, >> >> it looks like the "TI AR7 CPMAC Ethernet support" uses FIXED_PHY and >> was selecting FIXED_MII_100_FDX which is gone. >> >> Can you look into this. I get the following warning now: >> >> scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/powerpc/Kconfig >> drivers/net/Kconfig:1713:warning: 'select' used by config symbol >> 'CPMAC' refers to undefined symbol 'FIXED_MII_100_FDX' > > Wow. I thought there were no Fixed PHY users. :-) > > Jeff, as you've already Acked Fixed PHY rework to go through powerpc > tree, would you please Ack this patch in addition? I hope cpmac > maintainer will fix remaining issues as time goes by. > > Thanks! > > - - - - > From: Anton Vorontsov > Subject: [PATCH] [NET] cpmac: convert to new Fixed PHY infrastructure > > This patch converts cpmac to the new Fixed PHY infrastructure, though it > doesn't fix all the problems with that driver. I didn't even bother to > test this patch to compile, because cpmac driver is broken in several ways: > > 1. This driver won't compile by itself because lack of its header describing > platform data; > 2. It assumes that fixed PHYs should be created by the ethernet driver. > It is wrong assumption: fixed PHYs creation is platform code authority, > driver must blindly accept bus_id and phy_id platform data variables > instead. > > Also, it seem that that driver doesn't have actual in-tree users, so > nothing to fix further. > > The main purpose of that patch is to get rid of the following Kconfig > warning: > > scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/powerpc/Kconfig > drivers/net/Kconfig:1713:warning: 'select' used by config symbol > 'CPMAC' refers to undefined symbol 'FIXED_MII_100_FDX' > > Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov ACK