> -----Original Message----- > From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Steve Douthit > Sent: Monday, December 3, 2018 12:15 PM > To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T <[email protected]> > Cc: Andrew Lunn <[email protected]>; Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>; > [email protected]; [email protected]; David S. Miller > <[email protected]> > Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v4 1/2] ixgbe: register a mdiobus > > Most dsa devices expect a 'struct mii_bus' pointer to talk to switches via the > MII interface. > > While this works for dsa devices, it will not work safely with Linux PHYs in > all > configurations since the firmware of the ixgbe device may be polling some > PHY addresses in the background. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Douthit <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]> > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig | 1 + > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h | 2 + > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 5 + > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_phy.c | 299 ++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_phy.h | 2 + > 5 files changed, 309 insertions(+)
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <[email protected]>
