On Thursday 19 May 2016 09:03:26, John Crispin wrote:
> [ changing haukes mail addr to the intel one ]
> 
> On 19/05/2016 08:57, Alexander Stein wrote:
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > On Thursday 19 May 2016 06:50:56, John Crispin wrote:
> >> On 18/05/2016 18:24, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> >>> CC'ing Andrew, John,
> >> 
> >> also CC'ing Matthias and Hauke. we have had a driver in OpenWrt/LEDE for
> >> several years that seems a little more complete than this one.
> >> 
> >> https://git.lede-project.org/?p=source.git;a=blob;f=target/linux/lantiq/p
> >> atc
> >> hes-4.4/0023-NET-PHY-adds-driver-for-lantiq-PHY11G.patch;h=93bb4275ec1d2
> >> 61f3 98afb8fdc879c1dd973f997;hb=HEAD
> > 
> > Thanks for the link, I wasn't aware of that patch. I like it in general,
> > but there are some things I'd like to get addressed first:
> > * vr9_gphy_of_reg_init() writes uncoditionally to led3h and led3l even on
> > 
> >   PEf7071 which does not have this register at all
> 
> we use this driver mainly on the 11g and 22f version. mathias recently
> added the led3 handling.
> 
> @Mathias, can you have a look at this and fix it inside the lede tree ?
> 
> > * Why is PHY_HAS_INTERRUPT commented out everywhere?
> 
> legacy code, the old mips silicon had a bug and the internal phys irq
> lines worked unreliably so we used polling instead. rather than remove
> the code i just disabled that part. code is not cleaned up yet for
> upstream submission as you can tell :-)

Would you or Mathias mind dropping a cleaned up patch to netdev ml, cc'ing me? 
I can try it on our hardware using the 11g. Maybe I can even test the IRQ 
feature.

Regards,
Alexander

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