netdev - Re: Marvell Phy (1510) issue since v4.7 kernel

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Message-ID: <20170110015336.GA7160@lunn.ch>
Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2017 02:53:36 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     "Kwok, WingMan" <w-kwok2@...com>
Cc:     "Karicheri, Muralidharan" <m-karicheri2@...com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Marvell Phy (1510) issue since v4.7 kernel

> From Marvell's brief description http://www.marvell.com/transceivers/alaska-gbe/,
> it seems that 88E1510/1518 don't support fiber. Only 88E1512 does. In
> that case, the fiber support patch is not applicable to 88E1510/1518.

O.K. That makes it easier.

Please add the relevant IDs to include/linux/marvell.h, and add
entries to driver/net/phy/marvell.c for 1512 with SUPPORTED_FIBRE and
1510 and 1518 without.

     Andrew