On Thursday 08 November 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> With some PHYs, when the link goes away, the EMAC reset fails due
> to the loss of the RX clock I believe.
>
> The old EMAC driver worked around that using some internal chip-specific
> clock force bits that are different on various 44x implementations.
>
> This is an attempt at doing it differently, by avoiding the reset when
> there is no link, but forcing loopback mode instead. It seems to work
> on my Taishan 440GX based board so far.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Acked-by: Stefan Roese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Best regards,
Stefan
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