On Dec 7, 2011, at 2:02 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Andy Fleming <aflem...@freescale.com> > Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 13:50:57 -0600 > >> Systems which use the fsl_pq_mdio driver need to specify an >> address for TBI PHY transactions such that the address does >> not conflict with any PHYs on the bus (all transactions to >> that address are directed to the onboard TBI PHY). The driver >> used to scan for a free address if no address was specified, >> however this ran into issues when the PHY Lib was fixed so >> that all MDIO transactions were protected by a mutex. As it >> is, the code was meant to serve as a transitional tool until >> the device trees were all updated to specify the TBI address. >> >> The best fix for the mutex issue was to remove the scanning code, >> but it turns out some of the newer SoCs have started to omit >> the tbi-phy node when SGMII is not being used. As such, these >> devices will now fail unless we add a tbi-phy node to the first >> mdio controller. >> >> Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <aflem...@freescale.com> >> --- >> >> This requires fsl_pq_mdio: Clean up tbi address configuration from >> the net tree in order to achieve its full effect. >> >> This needs to go into 3.2. > > I'm fine if the powerpc tree takes this one: > > Acked-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Will pull in via PPC tree. - k _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev