Re: [patch 1/2] natsemi: Add support for using MII port with no PHY

[Ahmed S. Darwish]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:02:04AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
[...]
> -		if (np->phy_addr_external == PHY_ADDR_NONE) {
> +		/* If we're ignoring the PHY it doesn't matter if we can't
> +		 * find one. */
> +		if (!np->ignore_phy && np->phy_addr_external == PHY_ADDR_NONE) {
[...]
> +	if (!np->ignore_phy) {
> +		/* The link status field is latched: it remains low
> +		 * after a temporary link failure until it's read. We
> +		 * need the current link status, thus read twice.
> +		 */
> +		mdio_read(dev, MII_BMSR);
> +		bmsr = mdio_read(dev, MII_BMSR);
[...]
>  	/*
> +	 * If we're ignoring the PHY then autoneg and the internal
> +	 * transciever are really not going to work so don't let the
> +	 * user select them.
> +	 */
> +	if (np->ignore_phy && (ecmd->autoneg == AUTONEG_ENABLE ||

A trivial comment actually, Is there a point to write multi-line comments 
in two different formats ?

Thanks,

-- 
Ahmed S. Darwish
http://darwish-07.blogspot.com
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