Fix phy_init for Marvell network eth driver

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Thu Jan 10 07:17:19 EST 2013


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 02:00:32PM +0200, Kosta Zertsekel wrote:
> Hi all,
> resubmitting the patch for Marvell mv643xx driver (patch 1/2) adding the below explanation (thanks to Florian F.):
> The D-Link DNS323_REV_C1 board has a specific PHY device fixup using the flag MARVELL_PHY_M1118_DNS323_LEDS which is set by the architecture code in arch/arm/mach-orion5x/dns323-setup.c. This flag is unfortunately lost during the call to phy_attach() in mv643xx_eth and therefore, the underlying Marvell PHY driver cannot make use of this flag to fixup the PHY device LEDs. This patch ensures the phy->dev_flags value is passed to the phy_attach() function such that the PHY device driver can
> actually use it.
> 
> Also submitting new patch 2/2 using the same (or at least very close in meaning) explanation.

Could you please put the above description in the patch commit log for
both patches?  Other than that,

Acked-by: Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net>

thx,

Jason.



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