From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Hendrik Sattler <post@hendrik-sattler.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IXP4xx networking and phylib
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:36:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wsd0a0k3.fsf@maximus.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901121705.07966.post@hendrik-sattler.de> (Hendrik Sattler's message of "Mon\, 12 Jan 2009 17\:05\:07 +0100")
Hi,
Added CC: netdev.
Hendrik Sattler <post@hendrik-sattler.de> writes:
> My IXP465 MII port is connected to a Marvell switch (port 5). This port
> is "always on" and has no PHY registers. It is configured in hardware. The
> switch ports 1-4 have phy registers but that's not the matter.
> The problem is that there is no standard way in the platform info to tell the
> driver (now phylib) that there are _no_ PHY registers.
>
> Is there a standard way to say: enable the ethernet interface and be done with
> it?
> I currently do this by patching the driver. The PHYLIB patch makes that even
> easier but it would be better to not need patching at all (at least one
> driver less to patch).
>
> Maybe something like:
> if (phyid < 0)
> /* only enable the interface but there are no PHY registers */
--
Krzysztof Halasa
next parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-12 17:36 UTC|newest]
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2009-01-12 17:36 ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2009-02-04 23:15 ` IXP4xx networking and phylib Andy Fleming
2009-02-05 9:11 ` Hendrik Sattler
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