netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] b44: add support for external PHY

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Date:	Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:02:49 -0800
From:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:	Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, zambrano@...adcom.com,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] b44: add support for external PHY

2013/12/19 Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>:
> This adds support for an external phy connected to the mac controlled
> by b44. This is used on home routers of the BCM47xx line where this MAC
> core was used and is contended to an external switch core through MII.
> These patches are in OpenWrt for some time and are tested by different
> users with different devices.
>
> The publicly available Programmer's Reference Guide for some of these
> chips help making this patch it would be nice to have such a
> documentation for more Broadcom Chips like some SoCs.
> https://www.broadcom.com/collateral/pg/440X-PG02-R.pdf
>
> v3:
>  - remove changes to the fixed phy driver
>  - call fixed_phy_add() in arch/mips/bcm47xx/setup.c before the fixed
>    phy gets registered

Thanks Hauke, this looks great now!

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

>
> v2:
>  - add fixed phy driver patch
>  - use fixed phy driver in b44
>  - some smaller changes and typos
>
> Hauke Mehrtens (8):
>   b44: check register instead of PHY address to detect external PHY
>   b44: rename B44_PHY_ADDR_NO_PHY to B44_PHY_ADDR_NO_LOCAL_PHY
>   b44: abort when no PHY is available at all
>   b44: rename b44_mii_{read,write} to b44_mdio_{read,write}_mii
>   b44: add phylib support
>   b44: activate PHY when MAC is off
>   b44: do not set PHY address to 30 for every ext PHY
>   b44: use fixed PHY device if we do not find any
>
>  arch/mips/bcm47xx/setup.c             |   10 ++
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/Kconfig |    1 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c   |  250 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.h   |   15 +-
>  4 files changed, 250 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>



-- 
Florian
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