netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: emac: fix fixed-link setup for the RTL8363SB switch

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Date:   Tue, 18 Sep 2018 19:56:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...hat.com>
To:     chunkeey@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, ivan@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: emac: fix fixed-link setup for the RTL8363SB
 switch

From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 17:22:40 +0200

> On the Netgear WNDAP620, the emac ethernet isn't receiving nor
> xmitting any frames from/to the RTL8363SB (identifies itself
> as a RTL8367RB).
> 
> This is caused by the emac hardware not knowing the forced link
> parameters for speed, duplex, pause, etc.
> 
> This begs the question, how this was working on the original
> driver code, when it was necessary to set the phy_address and
> phy_map to 0xffffffff. But I guess without access to the old
> PPC405/440/460 hardware, it's not possible to know.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@...il.com>

Applied.