[PATCH] net: mvneta: properly disable HW PHY polling and ensure adjust_link() works

[Ethan Tuttle]

Understood.  Ultimately, I'll use this board as a router, and stable
mac addresses would be better than random.  So I would be interested
to try your atag -> device tree patches.  Have they been posted
somewhere I can find them?

Thanks Willy.

Ethan

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Willy Tarreau <w at 1wt.eu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:14:23PM -0700, Ethan Tuttle wrote:
>> Just booted with the patch on my Mirabox.  Both interfaces work!
>> Thank you Thomas.
>>
>> One remaining issue is that the interface which uBoot didn't configure
>> is still getting a random mac address:
>>
>> mvneta d0070000.ethernet eth0: Using hardware mac address f0:ad:4e:01:dc:97
>> mvneta d0074000.ethernet eth1: Using random mac address d2:35:dd:c8:99:48
>>
>> This is on 3.11 plus Thomas' patch, which includes the previous fix to
>> "read MAC address from hardware when available".  Perhaps that fix
>> isn't working with the phylib?
>
> No this is unrelated. The MAC isn't configured by the boot loader when
> the NIC is not used. U-boot only passes it as a non-standard ATAG. I
> have some patches to reinject the non-standard atags into the device
> tree if you absolutely need this, but they're not suited for mainline
> inclusion from what I understood last time I proposed them (they use
> a marvell-specific atag header).
>
> Regards,
> Willy
>