[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 5/6] da850/omap-l138: davinci_emac: Suppress auto negotiation if needed

[Tom Rini]

On 09/10/2012 10:32 PM, Bastian.Ruppert at sewerin.de wrote:
> Hello, Prabhakar, hello Tom
> 
>> On Monday 10 September 2012 09:38 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:01 PM,  <Bastian.Ruppert at sewerin.de> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>>> Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 5/6] da850/omap-l138: davinci_emac: Suppress
>>>>> auto negotiation if needed
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Prabhakar Lad
>>>>> <prabhakar.csengg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Bastian,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for the patch.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Bastian Ruppert
>>>>>> <Bastian.Ruppert at sewerin.de> wrote:
>>>>>>> From this commit id: b78375a806ed04eb22b963255cfdef8df702de47 auto
>>>>>>> negotiation is enabled in RMII mode. Some boards based on da850
> need
>>>>>>> to suppress this procedure.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> CC: Rajashekhara, Sudhakar <sudhakar.raj at ti.com>
>>>>>>> CC: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.lad at ti.com>
>>>>>>> CC: Hadli, Manjunath <manjunath.hadli at ti.com>
>>>>>>> CC: sbabic at denx.de
>>>>>>> Acked-by: Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de>
>>>>>>> CC: Tom Rini <trini at ti.com>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Bastian Ruppert <Bastian.Ruppert at Sewerin.de>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>  drivers/net/davinci_emac.c |    3 ++-
>>>>>>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/davinci_emac.c
> b/drivers/net/davinci_emac.c
>>>>>>> index b2516d1..fe988d7 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/net/davinci_emac.c
>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/davinci_emac.c
>>>>>>> @@ -897,7 +897,8 @@ int davinci_emac_initialize(void)
>>>>>>>         }
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  #if defined(CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC_USE_RMII) && \
>>>>>>> -               defined(CONFIG_MACH_DAVINCI_DA850_EVM)
>>>>>>> +               defined(CONFIG_MACH_DAVINCI_DA850_EVM) && \
>>>>>>> +                       !defined(CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC_RMII_NONEG)
>>>>>> instead of CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC_RMII_NONEG why not have
>>>>>> CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC_RMII_AUTO_NEGOTIATE ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Good idea, opt-in is better than opt-out, please make it so.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> i can see what you mean! But in this case i would like to answer back.
>>>> Normally, one almost certainly use the auto negotiation. On the ea20
>>>> board there is a seldom case where auto negotiation is
> counterproductive.
>>>> In my opinion the feature "disable it" is opt-in.
>>>> So i would like to leave it as it is.
>>>
>>> I will defer to Prabhakar for a final answer on this.
>>>
>> Ok. 'NONEG' doesn't sound good can you make it NO_NEGOTIATE ?
>>
> 
> Ok, i will use CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC_RMII_NO_NEGOTIATE. It is not too long,
> isn´t it?
> 
> Tom, would you like to receive a complete v4 patch series for this?
> Or should i post version 4 for the affected patches only?

Whichever is easier for you to post, thanks.

-- 
Tom