[PATCH] powerpc/85xx: Don't scan for TBI PHY addresses on MPC8569E-MDS boards

[Anton Vorontsov]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:39:25PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> Sometimes (e.g. when there are no UEMs attached to a board)
> fsl_pq_mdio_find_free() fails to find a spare address for a TBI PHY,
> this is because get_phy_id() returns bogus 0x0000ffff values
> (0xffffffff is expected), and therefore mdio bus probing fails with
> the following message:
> 
>   fsl-pq_mdio: probe of e0082120.mdio failed with error -16
> 
> And obviously ethernet doesn't work after this.
> 
> This patch solves the problem by adding tbi-phy node into mdio node,
> so that we won't scan for spare addresses, we'll just use a fixed one.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com>

Kumar,

I believe this patch is suitable for 2.6.31, no?

Thanks,

> ---
>  arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8569mds.dts |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8569mds.dts b/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8569mds.dts
> index 2577f37..baa4ac7 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8569mds.dts
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8569mds.dts
> @@ -502,6 +502,10 @@
>  				reg = <0x6>;
>  				device_type = "ethernet-phy";
>  			};
> +			tbi-phy at 11 {
> +				reg = <0x11>;
> +				device_type = "tbi-phy";
> +			};
>  		};
>  		mdio at 3520 {
>  			#address-cells = <1>;
> -- 
> 1.6.3.3
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