Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jun 2016 18:30:53 +0200 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 net-next v4 14/14] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: abstract switch registers accesses |
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On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 12:03:37PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote: > When the SMI address of the switch chip is zero, the chip assumes to be > the only one on the SMI master bus and thus responds to all its known > SMI devices addresses (port registers, Global2, etc.) > > When its SMI address is not zero, some chips (e.g. 88E6352) use an > indirect access through two SMI Command and Data registers. > > Other models (e.g. 88E6060) using less than 16 internal SMI addresses > always use a direct access. > > Add a capability flag to describe chips supporting the (indirect) > Multi-chip Addressing Mode, and a low-level API to access the registers > via SMI. > > Other accesses (like Ethernet management frames) may be added later. > > Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
This series is now ready for merging.
Thanks Andrew
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