[U-Boot] [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH 4/7] sunxi: Add CONFIG_MACPWR option

[Ian Campbell]

On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 15:51 +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2014-07-27 at 23:25 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >> On some boards the phy needs to be powered up through a gpio, add support for
> >> this.
> >
> > I assume from the context that this is the Ethernet PHY?
> >
> > I'm a bit surprised there isn't some sort of de facto existing naming
> > etc for something like this, but if there is my grep's aren't finding it
> > so:
> 
> My guess would be most other platforms have separate board files
> for each board they support, instead of our mixed approach.
> 
> They can just put whatever GPIO poking stuff in them under one of the
> standard weak symbols.

Yes, that sounds very plausible.

> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
> >
> > Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk>
>