On 22/11/15 00:40, John Crispin wrote:
> A network core might have more than one phy attached to its cpu port via a
> switch. The current code will set the carrier state to on/off when ever a
> cable is plugged into any of these ports.
Not really, no. The current PHY library implementation does
A network core might have more than one phy attached to its cpu port via a
switch. The current code will set the carrier state to on/off when ever a
cable is plugged into any of these ports.
The patch adds a new bool that allows the driver to tell the phy_device to not
set the carrier state.