[PATCH] powerpc/85xx: Fix ethernet link detection on MPC8569E-MDS boards

[Kumar Gala]

On Jun 24, 2009, at 11:30 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> Linux isn't able to detect link changes on ethernet ports that were
> used by U-Boot. This is because U-Boot wrongly clears interrupt
> polarity bit (INTPOL, 0x400) in the extended status register (EXT_SR,
> 0x1b) of Marvell PHYs.
>
> There is no easy way for PHY drivers to know IRQ line polarity (we
> could extract it from the device tree and pass it to phydevs, but
> that'll be quite a lot of work), so for now just reset the PHYs to
> their default states.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/mpc85xx_mds.c |   13 +++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

applied to merge

- k