From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Li Yang-r58472 <LeoLi@freescale.com>
Cc: <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>,
linuxppc-dev Development <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ucc_geth.c, make PHY device optional.
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:32:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B27F0350-E5ED-48BF-9605-1E6BE29B9E36@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <989B956029373F45A0B8AF0297081890D839B4@zch01exm26.fsl.freescale.net>
> How about separate autoneg to a property "dumb-phy", which
> indicates the
> PHY/switch doesn't provide MII register interface.
Something like that I suppose. But don't call it "dumb phy",
nor "fake phy", nor anything similar -- there simply is _no_
phy. If the Linux code wants to pretend there is one, that's
one thing, but there is no need to do any of this trickery in
the device tree.
> Therefore, it should
> use the fixed speed and duplex from device node rather than registers.
Yes.
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-04 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-29 18:49 [PATCH] ucc_geth.c, make PHY device optional Joakim Tjernlund
2007-07-03 0:52 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-07-03 3:42 ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-07-03 7:20 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-07-03 8:22 ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-07-03 11:19 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-07-03 11:38 ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-07-04 8:50 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-07-04 13:13 ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-07-04 13:32 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2007-07-04 16:44 ` Joakim Tjernlund
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