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

[Chen-Yu Tsai]

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.

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