Ethernet PHY chip discovery not working on 855T with 971/972 chips

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:43:18PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Tom,
>
> in message <20030711151834.GU17433 at ip68-0-152-218.tc.ph.cox.net> you wrote:
> >
> > > We changed this in our kernel tree some time ago. If no valid PHY  is
> > > found  we simply do not enable the interface, but we do not panic any
> > > more.
> >
> > Which raises two fun questions:
> > 1) Do you plan on ever trying to re-sync your 2.4 tree with the
> > community tree (which should become kernel.org before too long)?
>
> We do this from time to time. The last  (visible)  re-sync  was  with
> 2.4.20  (ChangeSet  1.1174  =  20021129181904|49831), which is half a
> year ago. On the other hand, we don't have the  resources  to  follow
> each and every change immediately.
>
> > 2) Do you plan on trying to keep in sync with 2.6 now that it's coming
> > up on us?
>
> Of course we will follow 2.6 as well.
>
> Why are you asking? Did I give any reason to think we might go out of
> business?

No, but I do wonder if you ever plan on sending anything out again.  It
does seem to be a once a year event, which is just about due (2002-06-18
is the last one I see).

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Tom Rini
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