[U-Boot] [PATCH V1 1/3] phy: add phy_connect_by_mask

Joe Hershberger
2012-09-26T17:26:15Z

Hi Troy,

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Troy Kisky
<troy.kisky@boundarydevices.com> wrote:
> On 8/22/2012 1:40 PM, Andy Fleming wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 1) Modify the driver so that the PHY address is passed in from board
>> initialization code programmatically. As a nod to the effort of doing
>> so for all boards, you can create a default value (ie - as it was),
>> that can be overridden by board code.
>> 2) Modify the search function to look for a valid PHY for a given
>> mask, and return the address of that PHY
>> 3) Add code to the board file which passes in the mask to the search
>> function, and then passes the resulting PHY address to the driver.
>>
>> For a somewhat elaborate example of this, look at drivers/net/tsec.c.
>> tsec_standard_init() and tsec_eth_init().
>>
>> Andy
>>
> Thanks for providing some direction. I think I know what you are after now.

Are you planning to update this before the release?

Thanks,
-Joe