[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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