netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/3] tg3: add support a phy at an address different than 01

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Date:	Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:42:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hauke@...ke-m.de
Cc:	nsujir@...adcom.com, mchan@...adcom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] tg3: add support a phy at an address different
 than 01

From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 23:15:26 +0200

> When phylib was in use tg3 only searched at address 01 on the mdio
> bus and did not work with any other address. On the BCM4705 SoCs the
> switch is connected as a PHY behind the MAC driven by tg3 and it is at
> PHY address 30 in most cases. This is a preparation patch to allow
> support for such switches.
> 
> phy_addr is set to TG3_PHY_MII_ADDR for all devices, which are using
> phylib, so this should not change any behavior.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>

Applied to net-next.
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