Subject: Re: [PATCH] MII bus API for PHY devices
From: Jason McMullan <jason.mcmullan@timesys.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, romieu@fr.zoreil.com
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On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 17:15 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Have you looked at what sungem/sungem_phy does ?
> 
> Among others, sungem has an algorithm for automatically testing fallback
> forced speeds when aneg fails, which has proven useful with a variety of
> PHY/hub combos, plus a "magic_aneg" bit in the PHY definition for PHYs
> taht can do that themselves automatically.

	I'll look into it.

> Also, besides shutdown(), you probably want a suspend() callback used by
> the MAC driver when the machine is entering a suspend() state (I
> definitely need that with various PHYs on powermacs) along with the
> various WOL parameters.

	For the 'wake on lan' stuff, could you give me a list of the
types of features you'd need? I haven't really looked at WOL just yet.

	We can add WOL, suspend, etc. as needed. I just want to
get the base infrastructure in first, and gradually start migrating
phys to the mii_bus on embedded systems.

-- 
Jason McMullan <jason.mcmullan@timesys.com>
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