From: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
To: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>,
Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFT 0/8] Marvell PXA168 libphy handling and Berlin Ethernet
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:37:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54451E3F.1030700@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141016095323.GA1061@kwain>
On 16.10.2014 11:53, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 02:38:58PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>> This patch series deals with a removing a IP feature that can be found
>> on all currently supported Marvell Ethernet IP (pxa168_eth, mv643xx_eth,
>> mvneta). The MAC IP allows to automatically perform PHY auto-negotiation
>> without software interaction.
>>
>> However, this feature (a) fundamentally clashes with the way libphy works
>> and (b) is unable to deal with quirky PHYs that require special treatment.
>> In this series, pxa168_eth driver is rewritten to completely disable that
>> feature and properly deal with libphy provided PHYs. The other two drivers
>> are suspect to future patch sets, also removing the code related with it.
>>
>> Currently, the patches are based on next-20141009 and will be resent once
>> v3.18-rc1 drops. This is a Request-For-Test on both BG2Q and MMP/gplug as
>
> I tested the series on a BG2Q, it worked well.
Antoine,
Thanks for testing! I assume you have added a phy-connection-type
property to BG2Q's ethernet node?
I doubt there will be any Tested-by from MMP guys anytime soon, so
I'll resend this with the minor remarks to be merged for 3.19.
Sebastian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-20 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-09 12:38 [PATCH RFT 0/8] Marvell PXA168 libphy handling and Berlin Ethernet Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-10-09 12:38 ` [PATCH RFT 1/8] phy: marvell: Add support for 88E3016 FastEthernet PHY Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-10-09 12:39 ` [PATCH RFT 2/8] net: pxa168_eth: Provide phy_interface mode on platform_data Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-10-09 12:39 ` [PATCH RFT 3/8] net: pxa168_eth: Prepare proper libphy handling Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-10-09 12:39 ` [PATCH RFT 4/8] net: pxa168_eth: Remove HW auto-negotiaion Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-10-09 12:39 ` [PATCH RFT 5/8] net: pxa168_eth: Remove in-driver PHY mangling Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-10-09 12:39 ` [PATCH RFT 6/8] ARM: berlin: Add BG2 ethernet DT nodes Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-10-09 12:39 ` [PATCH RFT 7/8] ARM: berlin: Add BG2CD " Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-10-09 12:39 ` [PATCH RFT 8/8] ARM: berlin: Enable ethernet on Sony NSZ-GS7 Sebastian Hesselbarth
[not found] ` <1412858346-11334-1-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-09 14:33 ` [PATCH RFT 0/8] Marvell PXA168 libphy handling and Berlin Ethernet Thomas Petazzoni
2014-10-09 14:41 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
[not found] ` <54369EAC.5040301-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-09 14:47 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-10-09 15:24 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-10-09 16:57 ` Florian Fainelli
2014-10-09 17:28 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-10-16 9:53 ` Antoine Tenart
2014-10-20 14:37 ` Sebastian Hesselbarth [this message]
2014-10-20 15:10 ` Antoine Tenart
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