[PATCH 0/4 for 2.6.31] NET: Revive fixed link support

[Anton Vorontsov]

Hi all,

The fixed link support is broken since The Big OF MDIO Rework,
the rework simply removed most of the code that was needed for
fixed links.

Too bad I didn't notice this earlier, I saw a bunch of patches
on the ml, but unfortunately I didn't look very close presuming
that Grant knew what he was doing. :-) And obviously I didn't
test linux-next on anything that requires a fixed link.

Anyway, here are four patches. The first one adds the fixed link
support to a framework, otherwise we'd duplicate the code across
the drivers (as we did previously), and I tried to keep drivers'
changes minimal.

Patches 2 and 3 are for the drivers that I tested in run-time,
with normal PHYs, and fixed links.

Patch #4 was build-tested, but I believe it should work in
run-time too.


Thanks,

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Anton Vorontsov
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