[U-Boot] [U-Boot, v2] net/designware - switch driver to phylib usage

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 08:54:06PM +0400, Alexey Brodkin wrote:

> With this change driver will benefit from existing phylib and thus
> custom phy functionality implemented in the driver will go away:
>  * Instantiation of the driver is now much shorter - 2 parameters
> instead of 4.
>  * Simplified phy management/functoinality in driver is replaced with
> rich functionality of phylib.
>  * Support of custom phy initialization is now done with existing
> "board_phy_config".
> 
> Note that after this change some previously used config options
> (driver-specific PHY configuration) will be obsolete and they are simply
> substituted with similar options of phylib.
> 
> For example:
>  * CONFIG_DW_AUTONEG - no need in this one. Autonegotiation is enabled
> by default.
>  * CONFIG_DW_SEARCH_PHY - if one wants to specify attached phy
> explicitly CONFIG_PHY_ADDR board config option has to be used, otherwise
> automatically the first discovered on MDIO bus phy will be used
> 
> I believe there's no need now in "doc/README.designware_eth" because
> user only needs to instantiate the driver with "designware_initialize"
> whose prototype exists in "include/netdev.h".
> 
> Prerequisites are:
>  1) http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/313326/
>  2) http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/309764/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>
> 
> Cc: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>
> Cc: Vipin Kumar <vipin.kumar at st.com>
> Cc: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> Cc: Mischa Jonker <mjonker at synopsys.com>
> Cc: Shiraz Hashim <shiraz.hashim at st.com>
> Cc: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net>
> Cc: Amit Virdi <amit.virdi at st.com>
> Cc: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang at analog.com>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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