[PATCH v2 0/9] Marvell PXA168 libphy handling and Berlin Ethernet
David Miller
davem at davemloft.net
Fri Oct 24 12:50:31 PDT 2014
From: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 20:26:43 +0200
> This patch series deals with a removing a IP feature that can be found
> on all currently supported Marvell Ethernet IP (pxa168_eth, mv643xx_eth,
> mvneta). The MAC IP allows to automatically perform PHY auto-negotiation
> without software interaction.
>
> However, this feature (a) fundamentally clashes with the way libphy works
> and (b) is unable to deal with quirky PHYs that require special treatment.
> In this series, pxa168_eth driver is rewritten to completely disable that
> feature and properly deal with libphy provided PHYs.
>
> As usual, a branch on top of v3.18-rc1 can be found at
>
> git://git.infradead.org/users/hesselba/linux-berlin.git devel/bg2-bg2cd-eth-v2
>
> Patches 1-5 should go through David's net tree, I'll pick up the DT patches
> 6-9.
Patches 1-5 applied to net-next, thanks.
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