Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751882AbaJTOh7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:37:59 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f50.google.com ([74.125.82.50]:48003 "EHLO mail-wg0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750954AbaJTOh5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:37:57 -0400 Message-ID: <54451E3F.1030700@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:37:51 +0200 From: Sebastian Hesselbarth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 To: Antoine Tenart CC: "David S. Miller" , Florian Fainelli , Eric Miao , Haojian Zhuang , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFT 0/8] Marvell PXA168 libphy handling and Berlin Ethernet References: <1412858346-11334-1-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> <20141016095323.GA1061@kwain> In-Reply-To: <20141016095323.GA1061@kwain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/