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
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MII bus API for PHY devices
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:47:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1100278046.17607.23.camel@jmcmullan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1100240131.20512.47.camel@gaston>
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>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-12 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-11 22:48 [PATCH] MII bus API for PHY devices Jason McMullan
2004-11-11 23:54 ` Francois Romieu
2004-11-12 0:07 ` Francois Romieu
2004-11-12 6:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-12 16:47 ` Jason McMullan [this message]
2004-11-13 1:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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2004-11-19 20:18 Manfred Spraul
2004-11-19 21:01 ` Andy Fleming
[not found] <069B6F33-341C-11D9-9652-000393DBC2E8@freescale.com>
2004-11-18 17:52 ` Andy Fleming
2004-11-18 19:34 ` Jason McMullan
2004-11-18 19:50 ` Andy Fleming
2004-11-18 21:00 ` Jason McMullan
2004-11-18 23:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-19 16:41 ` Jason McMullan
2004-11-19 21:18 ` Andy Fleming
2004-11-19 22:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-11-20 0:04 ` Andy Fleming
2004-11-11 19:45 Jason McMullan
2004-11-11 21:31 ` Francois Romieu
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