On 21/04/2014 12:16, Roman Yeryomin wrote:
> On 21 April 2014 12:55, John Crispin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 21/04/2014 10:58, Roman Yeryomin wrote:
>>> The target was ramips, rt2880 and rt305x subtargets at least.
>>> I'm not sure how rtl8366xx differs from ip175e but both realtek
>>> switch and smi parts are under drivers/net/phy/. I remember
>>> when I submitted a patch to exclude realtek switch from target
>>> kernel konfig and just use kernel package when it's needed by a
>>> board, somebody said it will not work like this. But it did and
>>> works now also. Unfortunately I don't have any hw with ip175e
>>> to test...
>> 
>> i believe you are wrong here but i will verify. to my
>> understanding only smi phy drivers should work when loaded post
>> ethernet init.
>> 
>> the etehrnet driver needs the phy driver to be present when the 
>> of_phy_connect() is called. to my knowledge there is no mechanism
>> for defeered phy attach logic.
>> 
>> John
> 
> grep -Hrin "rtl83" target/linux/ramips/*/config-3.10 
> target/linux/ramips/rt3883/config-3.10:140:CONFIG_RTL8366_SMI=y 
> target/linux/ramips/rt3883/config-3.10:141:CONFIG_RTL8367B_PHY=y 
> target/linux/ramips/rt3883/config-3.10:142:CONFIG_RTL8367_PHY=y
> 
> But I never touched rt3883 subtarget and I assume those lines can
> be safely deleted (after including kmod-rtl836xxx package in board 
> profiles).
> 



true and should be done for sake of consistency, however somewhat
unrelated to the actual topic that we are discussing
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