On 11/05/2013 11:12 PM, Arnaud Ebalard wrote:
Hi Jason,
Jason Gunthorpe <jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com> writes:
Commit cc9d4598 'net: mv643xx_eth: use of_phy_connect if phy_node
present' made the call to phy_scan optional, if the DT has a link to
the phy node.
However phy_scan has the side effect of calling phy_addr_set, which
writes the phy MDIO address to the ethernet controller. If phy_addr_set
is not called, and the bootloader has not set the correct address then
the driver will fail to function.
Thanks *a lot* for fixing this one! I had the issue on my ReadyNAS 102
(Armada 370 based) which I had put on a todo list and temporarily
Erm, just to make sure: Armada 370 isn't using mv643xx_eth but mvneta,
are you sure it is (was) related to Jason's fix?
Sebastian
workarounded by including a 'ping whatever' call in my u-boot env in
order to force it to do the init. Without it, I was unable to properly
use the interface. With your fix, after multiple reboots to test it,
everything works as expected. So, FWIW:
Tested-by: Arnaud Ebalard <a...@natisbad.org>
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