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Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:20:35 -0600
From:	Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>
To:	avorontsov@...mvista.com
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@...ronovasrl.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phylib: Fix Freescale TBI PHY detection


On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>>
>> There is one thing I don't actually understand though...
>>
>> Andy, were you testing the TBI support on a hardware where PHY ID
>> != 0x0 or maybe your TBI PHY support patch (commit b31a1d8b41513b,
>> dated Tue Dec 16 15:29:15 2008) was based on a bit outdated kernel
>> version? Because according to the git timestamps, the TBI support
>> was not working since the submission.
>>
>> Just in case, the hardware I'm seeing the PHY ID == 0x0 is
>> MPC8378E-MDS.
>
> I think I got it. Probably the TBI support patch was based on the
> powerpc.git next, and the commit that broke the TBI support
> was in the net-next-2.6 tree.
>
> That explains why nobody noticed the issue.


Yeah, I dropped the ball.  I saw the patch go in, thought that might  
break something, but I didn't find time to look into it.  Thanks for  
finding and reverting this bug.

Acked-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>
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