[PATCH 1/2] [POWERPC] Add support of platforms without PHY to gianfar driver

Kim Phillips kim.phillips at freescale.com
Fri Jul 27 10:04:17 EST 2007


On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:43:12 +0400
Vitaly Bordug <vitb at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> 
> Gianfar driver is now able to work without real phy subnode,
> that is necessary to cope with fixed-link situation, when
> SoC is connected to the Ethernet inteface or embedded switch 
> without any PHY. In this case, fixed-speed property will
> describe such a situation for gianfar driver.
> 
> The property is in form <duplexity speed>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vitb at kernel.crashing.org>
> 
> ---
> 
>  arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_soc.c |   39 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  drivers/net/gianfar.c         |   17 ++++++++++++++---

please run this through checkpatch.pl until it passes.

<snip>
> +			bus_id = of_get_property(np, "fixed_speed",NULL);

hyphens are preferred for new properties.  Plus, isn't fixed-link a
better name?  unless you instead want to put speed first and make
duplexity an optional second, or possibly even a string.

Also, can we get this new property documented in b-w-of in a separate
patch?

Kim



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