On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Hannes Schmelzer <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Hannes Schmelzer <[email protected]> > > This patch adds support for having a "fixed-link" to some other MAC > (like some embedded switch-device). > > For this purpose we introduce a new phy-driver, called "Fixed PHY". > > Fixed PHY works only with CONFIG_DM_ETH enabled, since the fixed-link is > described with a subnode below ethernet interface. > > Most ethernet drivers (unfortunately not all are following same scheme > for searching/attaching phys) are calling "phy_connect(...)" for getting > a phy-device. > At this point we link in, we search here for a subnode called "fixed- > link", once found we start phy_device_create(...) with the special phy- > id PHY_FIXED_ID (0xa5a55a5a). > > During init the "Fixed PHY" driver has registered with this id and now > gets probed, during probe we get all the details about fixed-link out of > dts, later on the phy reports this values. > > Signed-off-by: Hannes Schmelzer <[email protected]> > > Signed-off-by: Hannes Schmelzer <[email protected]>
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