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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:37:51 +0200 From: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com> To: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...e-electrons.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@...il.com>, Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...il.com>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFT 0/8] Marvell PXA168 libphy handling and Berlin Ethernet On 16.10.2014 11:53, Antoine Tenart wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 02:38:58PM +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. >> >> Currently, the patches are based on next-20141009 and will be resent once >> v3.18-rc1 drops. This is a Request-For-Test on both BG2Q and MMP/gplug as > > I tested the series on a BG2Q, it worked well. Antoine, Thanks for testing! I assume you have added a phy-connection-type property to BG2Q's ethernet node? I doubt there will be any Tested-by from MMP guys anytime soon, so I'll resend this with the minor remarks to be merged for 3.19. Sebastian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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