netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Marvell PXA168 libphy handling and Berlin Ethernet

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Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:50:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com
Cc:	antoine.tenart@...e-electrons.com, f.fainelli@...il.com,
	eric.y.miao@...il.com, haojian.zhuang@...il.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Marvell PXA168 libphy handling and Berlin
 Ethernet

From: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 20:26:43 +0200

> This patch series deals with a removing a IP feature that can be found
> on all currently supported Marvell Ethernet IP (pxa168_eth, mv643xx_eth,
> mvneta). The MAC IP allows to automatically perform PHY auto-negotiation
> without software interaction.
> 
> However, this feature (a) fundamentally clashes with the way libphy works
> and (b) is unable to deal with quirky PHYs that require special treatment.
> In this series, pxa168_eth driver is rewritten to completely disable that
> feature and properly deal with libphy provided PHYs.
> 
> As usual, a branch on top of v3.18-rc1 can be found at
> 
> git://git.infradead.org/users/hesselba/linux-berlin.git devel/bg2-bg2cd-eth-v2
> 
> Patches 1-5 should go through David's net tree, I'll pick up the DT patches
> 6-9.

Patches 1-5 applied to net-next, thanks.
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