[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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