On 21/04/2014 10:58, Roman Yeryomin wrote:
> The target was ramips, rt2880 and rt305x subtargets at least. I'm
> not sure how rtl8366xx differs from ip175e but both realtek switch
> and smi parts are under drivers/net/phy/. I remember when I
> submitted a patch to exclude realtek switch from target kernel
> konfig and just use kernel package when it's needed by a board,
> somebody said it will not work like this. But it did and works now
> also. Unfortunately I don't have any hw with ip175e to test...
i believe you are wrong here but i will verify. to my understanding
only smi phy drivers should work when loaded post ethernet init.
the etehrnet driver needs the phy driver to be present when the
of_phy_connect() is called. to my knowledge there is no mechanism for
defeered phy attach logic.
John
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