Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MII bus API for PHY devices | From | Jason McMullan <> | Date | Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:47:26 -0500 |
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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.
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