Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:18:56 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/2] natsemi: Add support for using MII port with no PHY |
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Mark Brown wrote: > This patch provides code paths which allow the natsemi driver to use the > external MII port on the chip but ignore any PHYs that may be attached to it. > The link state will be left as it was when the driver started and can be > configured via ethtool. Any PHYs that are present can be accessed via the MII > ioctl()s. > > This is useful for systems where the device is connected without a PHY > or where either information or actions outside the scope of the driver > are required in order to use the PHYs. > > Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> > > --- > > This revision of the patch fixes some issues brought up during review. > > Previous versions of this patch exposed the new functionality as a module > option. This has been removed. Any hardware that needs this should be > identifiable by a quirk since it unlikely to behave correctly with an > unmodified driver.
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