[PATCH] sbc8641: drop bogus PHY IRQ entries from DTS file
Andrew Lunn
andrew at lunn.ch
Thu Dec 10 02:29:23 AEDT 2015
> > Originally the interrupt is used for detecting the link has gone
> > down. That would of also been bogus before. Have you tried this? If
>
> Haven't tried it, but chances are you are right.
>
> > that is also broken, maybe you need to add a fixes: tag so that it
> > gets back ported?
>
> Nobody noticed in the past ~7 years or so, but I guess I can point Greg
> at it once it is present in mainline. The main reason I'd Cc'd netdev
> is just to possibly save anyone else the investigation if they ran into
> the same issue on a different board -which seems highly probable IMHO.
Yes, you are probably right about other boards. So this change might
be considered as causing a regression. But if they are already broken,
because link down does not work, there might be less demand to get the
change reverted....
Andrew
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