[U-Boot] [PATCH V2] Allow PHY addresses on kirkwood egiga to be non continuous.

[Prafulla Wadaskar]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:wd at denx.de] 
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 5:32 PM
> To: Tor Krill
> Cc: Prafulla Wadaskar; u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH V2] Allow PHY addresses on 
> kirkwood egiga to be non continuous.
> 
> Dear Tor Krill,
> 
> In message <1277716302.2221.37.camel at tor-desktop> you wrote:
> >
> > > 2. For the boards using single port will also need to 
> configure PHY address
> > >  for other port, which is meaningless, unnecessary and confusing.
> > 
> > Sure you had to put something there to be on the safe side. 
> But is that
> > really that confusing, the SOC really have two ports, them 
> being used or
> > not? 
> 
> It is indeed confusing and should be avoided if one has to configurwe
> hardware ports that are not actually present or used on a specific
> board.
> 
> If needed, provide sane defaults internally in the code.
> 
> But keep in mind that U-Boot requires that only used peripherals
> should be initialized - we should not initisalize any unused ports.

Yes,
This is already taken care by kirkwood_egiga driver, it only initialize selected port

Regards..
Prafulla . .