netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] phylib: Modify Vitesse RGMII skew settings

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Date:	Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:00:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	afleming@...escale.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] phylib: Modify Vitesse RGMII skew settings

From: Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:33:55 -0500

> The Vitesse driver was using the RGMII_ID interface type to determine if
> skew was necessary.  However, we want to move away from using that
> interface type, as it's really a property of the board's PHY connection.
> However, some boards depend on it, so we want to support it, while
> allowing new boards to use the more flexible "fixups" approach.  To do
> this, we extract the code which adds skew into its own function, and
> call that function when RGMII_ID has been selected.
> 
> Another side-effect of this change is that if your PHY has skew set
> already, it doesn't clear it.  This way, the fixup code can modify the
> register without config_init then clearing it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>

Applied.
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