Seewer Philippe wrote: > Most AMD pcnet chips support up to 32 external PHYs. This patch > introduces basic PHY selection/switching support, by adding two > new module parameters: > -maxphy: how many PHYs the card supports > -usephy: which phy to use instead of eeprom default > > Maxphy is necessary in order to check the range of usephy and may > be overriden inside the module.
It seems a bit pointless for the range check of a user-supplied value to be driven by another user-supplied value. > If only maxphy is present I've implemented an algorithm which checks > the link state on all PHYs and uses the one that has a link. Knowing how many PHYs to scan is potentially useful, but how about determining that at runtime? Missing PHYs should be detectable with a timeout or similar. Too risky? --Adam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
