Dear Sebastian Hesselbarth, On Thu, 9 Oct 2014 14:38:58 +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> This patch series deals with a removing a IP feature that can be found > on all currently supported Marvell Ethernet IP (pxa168_eth, mv643xx_eth, > mvneta). The MAC IP allows to automatically perform PHY auto-negotiation > without software interaction. > > However, this feature (a) fundamentally clashes with the way libphy works > and (b) is unable to deal with quirky PHYs that require special treatment. > In this series, pxa168_eth driver is rewritten to completely disable that > feature and properly deal with libphy provided PHYs. The other two drivers > are suspect to future patch sets, also removing the code related with it. Hum, in mvneta, we already disabled the automatic negotiation and use libphy. What makes you think the current mvneta driver is wrong in this respect? Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
