[PATCH] ARM: imx_v6_v7_defconfig: Select SMSC_PHY

Dong Aisheng dongas86 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 29 23:47:48 PDT 2017


On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 02:16:50PM +0300, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 14:43 +0800, Dong Aisheng wrote:
> > Hi Leonard,
> > 
> > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 04:27:37PM +0200, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> > > 
> > > The imx6sl-evk board has a LAN8720A ethernet phy supported by SMSC_PHY.
> > > Add this driver to the default imx config since the device is present on
> > > one of the evaluation boards.
> > Upstream currently no evaluation board support.
> > 
> > This may leave to Shawn to decide whether apply it.
> 
> Really? But the dts for this eval board is included in upstream. Shouldn't the
> default config try to work with the default imx*.dts files included?
> 

Oh.. i saw the board wrong, sorry for the noise.

Regards
Dong Aisheng

> > > This used to work mostly fine with the generic phy driver but since
> > > commit 0878fff1f42c18e448ab5b8b4f6a3eb32365b5b6 that driver no longer
> > I guess you should get a checkpatch error here.
> 
> Because I didn't reference that other commit right? Sorry about this.
> 
> Should I submit again with an improved commit message?
> 
> > > performs a soft reset on startup. This causes netboot to sometimes
> > > timeout on DHCP because RX doesn't work right. DHCP is eventually retried
> > > and
> > Probably another checkpatch warning.
> 
> Why, line too long?
> 
> > > This was generated with "make savedefconfig" and it includes a few
> > > additional minor cleanups.
> > > 
> > It is a bit strange, after apply your patch, i still get a lot difference
> > as follows when savedefconfig:
>> > I don't know what's wrong. Toolchains difference?
> 
> Maybe, kconfig acts strangely sometimes. It's not clear option ordering is
> guaranteed to be stable. I don't think it matters though.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Leonard



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