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Message-ID: <20130715214414.1f885ba8@skate>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:44:14 +0200
From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
To: Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: convert mvneta to build_skb()
Dear Florian Fainelli,
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:52:44 +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > I still believe this is not the right fix, but unfortunately, I haven't
> > had the time to work on what would be the right fix. Hardware PHY
> > polling has been intentionally disabled, and the driver should work
> > without, since the PHY polling is done in software by the phylib.
>
> You may now be able to use the PHY interrupt bit from your MAC
> interrupt handler and call phy_mac_interrupt() provided by libphy. I
> added it specifically to be able to use PHY link interrupts connected
> to the MAC.
Right, but the MAC feature in question makes the MAC directly talks to
the PHY to configure it, completely bypassing the entire libphy logic.
I am not sure how to handle this together with libphy.
Thomas
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