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

[Troy Kisky <troy.kisky@boundarydevices.com>]

On 9/26/2012 10:26 AM, Joe Hershberger wrote:
> 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
>
Probably not. I'll try to get to it next week, but I don't think it 
belongs in the coming
release. And it might need still another iteration.

Thanks
Troy