[PATCH 12/13] gianfar: Add flags for magic packet and MDIO.

[Kumar Gala]

On May 7, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Scott Wood wrote:

> Kumar Gala wrote:
>> On May 7, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>>> The magic packet flag indicates that the hardware has this
>>> capability.  The MDIO flag indicates that this device's
>>> registers contain active MDIO registers, and thus this
>>> device should not be put to sleep.
>> Can you explain the MDIO part further, do you mean its the tsec  
>> that  has the MDIO registers in its address space or that its  
>> actively  using MDIO for something?
>
> TSEC1 contains the MDIO registers for both TSEC1 and TSEC2.  Thus,  
> TSEC1 cannot be put to sleep if TSEC2 is active (plus, the phy  
> timer would have to be deactivated).  For now, the simple approach  
> of never sleeping TSEC1 is used.

That's what I guessed was the case, just wasn't clear from the comment.

- k