Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] ARM: STi fixes and ethernet support | Date | Tue, 9 Jul 2013 09:56:02 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 09 July 2013, Srinivas KANDAGATLA wrote: > stmmac (aka "dwmac" a synopsis IP) driver is integrated in to kernel > sometime in 2.6 series I think :-), and Is used by more than 4 platforms > in 3.10 kernel. The driver is more generic than it sounds. > So adding properties/hooks specific to STiH41x SOCs in driver seemed to > incorrect. Instead doing platform specific bits in the mach via > callbacks was the only choice I had.
No, you should be using generic interfaces to do the things you need.
I believe what you are missing is an ethernet phy driver that is specific to your SoC.
Arnd
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