[PATCH 12/13] gianfar: Add flags for magic packet and MDIO.
Kumar Gala
galak at kernel.crashing.org
Tue May 8 09:11:45 EST 2007
On May 7, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Andy Fleming wrote:
>
>> @@ -323,6 +326,10 @@ static int __init gfar_of_init(void)
>> gfar_data.phy_id = *id;
>> gfar_data.bus_id = res.start;
>>
>> + if (res.start >= gfar_dev->resource[0].start &&
>> + res.start < gfar_dev->resource[0].end)
>> + gfar_data.device_flags |= FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_MDIO;
>> +
>
>
> Hrm. I don't think this is a good way to go. The DEV* flags are all
> features right now, rather than configuration settings. It seems
> like this is a stop-gap solution for until more robust detection of
> the ability to power down the interface. I can understand that a
> full solution might be beyond the ambitions of this first set of
> patches, but I'd prefer if we didn't pollute gianfar's device flags
> space with a flag that we should aim at removing eventually.
I don't follow why this isn't a feature of TSEC1 on the parts and why
we don't put this into the device tree as a property.
- k
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