[PATCH] ucc_geth.c, make PHY device optional.

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jul 4 23:32:20 EST 2007


> How about separate autoneg to a property "dumb-phy", which  
> indicates the
> PHY/switch doesn't provide MII register interface.

Something like that I suppose.  But don't call it "dumb phy",
nor "fake phy", nor anything similar -- there simply is _no_
phy.  If the Linux code wants to pretend there is one, that's
one thing, but there is no need to do any of this trickery in
the device tree.

> Therefore, it should
> use the fixed speed and duplex from device node rather than registers.

Yes.


Segher




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