[PATCH] mii-tool: make the 'No MII transceiver present!' message more clear

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Tue Jul 1 22:46:50 PDT 2014


On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 01:04:25AM +0400, Antony Pavlov wrote:
> Suppose you have two network controllers.
> The first one is ENC28J60 (it is in low power mode
> after start) the second one is always-enabled eth1.
> 
> As ENC28J60 is in low power mode before enc28j60_eth_open()
> is called. ENC28J60's mii traceiver is in low power mode too
> so the mii traceiver's register are inaccessable.
> 
> Here is a sample log just after barebox start:
> 
>   barebox:/ miitool
>   miibus0: registered phy as /dev/phy0
>     No MII transceiver present!.
>   miibus1: registered phy as /dev/phy1
>   phy1: eth1: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok
>   barebox:/ miitool
>     No MII transceiver present!.
>   phy1: eth1: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok
> 
> The 'No MII transceiver present!.' message is confusing here.
> 
> This patch fixes the problem so the miitool output
> looks like this:
> 
>   barebox:/ miitool
>   phy0: spieth0:  No MII transceiver present!.
>   phy1: eth1: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok
> 
> Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov at gmail.com>
> ---

Applied, thanks

Sascha

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