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authorThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>2012-11-12 20:03:47 +0400
committerThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>2012-11-16 13:20:52 +0400
commitfc8f5aded1cf9f5505c55694b36174621c7ac88c (patch)
tree9d27d420875319912d21537261bb1a45b8590223 /drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig
parent77b67063bb6bce6d475e910d3b886a606d0d91f7 (diff)
downloadlinux-fc8f5aded1cf9f5505c55694b36174621c7ac88c.tar.xz
net: mvmdio: new Marvell MDIO driver
This patch adds a separate driver for the MDIO interface of the Marvell Ethernet controllers. There are two reasons to have a separate driver rather than including it inside the MAC driver itself: *) The MDIO interface is shared by all Ethernet ports, so a driver must guarantee non-concurrent accesses to this MDIO interface. The most logical way is to have a separate driver that handles this single MDIO interface, used by all Ethernet ports. *) The MDIO interface is the same between the existing mv643xx_eth driver and the new mvneta driver. Even though it is for now only used by the mvneta driver, it will in the future be used by the mv643xx_eth driver as well. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig
index 0029934748bc..232ccb3cb08b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig
@@ -31,6 +31,17 @@ config MV643XX_ETH
Some boards that use the Discovery chipset are the Momenco
Ocelot C and Jaguar ATX and Pegasos II.
+config MVMDIO
+ tristate "Marvell MDIO interface support"
+ ---help---
+ This driver supports the MDIO interface found in the network
+ interface units of the Marvell EBU SoCs (Kirkwood, Orion5x,
+ Dove, Armada 370 and Armada XP).
+
+ For now, this driver is only needed for the MVNETA driver
+ (used on Armada 370 and XP), but it could be used in the
+ future by the MV643XX_ETH driver.
+
config PXA168_ETH
tristate "Marvell pxa168 ethernet support"
depends on CPU_PXA168