netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Indirect phy access for mv88e6171

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Date:	Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:54:25 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	andrew@...n.ch
Cc:	linux@...ck-us.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Indirect phy access for mv88e6171

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 19:17:49 +0100

> These two patches allow the mv88e6171 driver to access the port phys
> using indirect addressing. Depending on pin strapping, the switch
> either uses a single address on the host MDIO bus, requiring the port
> phys are accessed indirectly, or the switch uses a number of addresses
> on the host bus and the phys can be directly accessed.
> 
> The 370RD, the first supported platform to use the 6171 uses multiple
> addresses, so this indirect mode was not required. However the
> WRT1900AC has the switch configured to use a single address, and so
> indirect access is needed.
> 
> The mv88e6352 already has all the needed code. Refactor it into the
> shared mv88e6xxx and then use it in the mv88e6171 driver.
> 
> Tested on the 370RD and WRT1900AC.
> 
> It would be good if Guenter Roeck could test on his platform to ensure
> i've not broken anything for the mv88e6352.

Series applied, thanks.
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