[PATCH v2] ibm_newemac: Add MII mode support to the EMAC RGMII bridge.

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at pobox.com
Fri Jul 11 15:19:43 EST 2008


Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 08:03 -0700, Grant Erickson wrote:
>> This patch adds support to the RGMII handler in the EMAC driver for
>> the MII PHY mode such that device tree entries of the form `phy-mode = "mii";'
>> are recognized and handled appropriately.
>>
>> While logically, in software, "gmii" and "mii" modes are the same,
>> they are wired differently, so it makes sense to allow DTS authors to
>> specify each explicitly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Grant Erickson <gerickson at nuovations.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>

ACK


> Jeff, I'd like to apply that (and other EMAC patches for 2.6.27, do you
> have anything else pending ?) via my tree provided you give me your ack.
> The reason is that the multicast fix one is going that way as it touches
> other arch files, and subsequent ones are now likely to conflict.
> 
> Let me know if that's ok with you in which case I'll stick your ack in
> there.

Ok w/ me!




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