[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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