[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3]: arm:kirkwood Define kirkwood phy address magic number
Simon Kagstrom
simon.kagstrom at netinsight.net
Thu Aug 20 13:47:07 CEST 2009
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:40:48 -0700
Prafulla Wadaskar <prafulla at marvell.com> wrote:
> >
> > +#define KIRKWOOD_PHY_ADR_REQUEST 0xee
> define this in header file
>
> Basically this is needed in drivers/net/phy/mv88e61xx.c for multi chip support
> in this case we need to define this in include/miiphy.h.
> which conflicts with other phy address definition, that's why not done earlier
>
> It makes more sense to add APIs miiphy_read/write_phyadr to miiutils
But is this really general functionality? miiphy.h is something I
suppose should be generic between phys and not contain device-specific
things like this.
Perhaps we should revive the patches that move out the phy
initialization from sheevaplug.c and place the define and some
implementation there?
// Simon
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