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From: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org

[mailto:netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org] On

Behalf Of Joakim Tjernlund
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 8:52 AM
To: 'linuxppc-dev Development'; 'Netdev'; Li Yang-r58472
Subject: [PATCH] ucc_geth.c, make PHY device optional.

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This patch makes the PHY optional for ucc_geth.c ethernet driver.
This is useful to support a direct mii to mii connection to, for

example,

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a onboard swicth.

Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <redacted>

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Hi Joakim,

I'm wondering if we really need to have the option to disable phylib.
Actually we have made phylib selected by default for ucc_geth.  Many L2
switch chips have the capacity to be controlled.  Therefore they can be
managed as a phy device.  For the MII interface which is not
configurable, shouldn't we use the fixed phy support from Vitaly?

- Leo