Re: [PATCH RFT 0/8] Marvell PXA168 libphy handling and Berlin Ethernet

[Sebastian Hesselbarth]

On 16.10.2014 11:53, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 02:38:58PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> > This patch series deals with a removing a IP feature that can be found
> > on all currently supported Marvell Ethernet IP (pxa168_eth, mv643xx_eth,
> > mvneta). The MAC IP allows to automatically perform PHY auto-negotiation
> > without software interaction.
> >
> > However, this feature (a) fundamentally clashes with the way libphy works
> > and (b) is unable to deal with quirky PHYs that require special treatment.
> > In this series, pxa168_eth driver is rewritten to completely disable that
> > feature and properly deal with libphy provided PHYs. The other two drivers
> > are suspect to future patch sets, also removing the code related with it.
> >
> > Currently, the patches are based on next-20141009 and will be resent once
> > v3.18-rc1 drops. This is a Request-For-Test on both BG2Q and MMP/gplug as
>
> I tested the series on a BG2Q, it worked well.

Antoine,

Thanks for testing! I assume you have added a phy-connection-type
property to BG2Q's ethernet node?

I doubt there will be any Tested-by from MMP guys anytime soon, so
I'll resend this with the minor remarks to be merged for 3.19.

Sebastian
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