On 04/29/2015 06:57 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
Convert the Marvell 88E6060 switch driver into a proper PHY library
driver that can be registered. To make sure we do not introduce
functional changes, the PHY driver provides autoneg and status callbacks
to make sure the attached Ethernet MAC driver still sees a link UP at
the CPU port full speed.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com>
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drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6060.c | 114 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 109 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
The whole complexity added here makes me wonder if we are really on the right
track.
After all, switches are _not_ phy devices. Forcing them to register as phy
devices
just because they use mdio and just because the Linux mdio implementation
assumes
that anything connected to it is a phy seems odd.
A much better solution might be be to disconnect mdio from phy, ie to create a
new
mdio bus framework, as then use this framework for anything connected to an
mdio bus.
Does this make any sense, or am I completely off track ?
Thanks,
Guenter
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