diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/of/of_mdio.c | 19 |
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt index 41b3f3f864e8..5d88f37480b6 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt @@ -25,7 +25,11 @@ The following properties are common to the Ethernet controllers: flow control thresholds. - tx-fifo-depth: the size of the controller's transmit fifo in bytes. This is used for components that can have configurable fifo sizes. +- managed: string, specifies the PHY management type. Supported values are: + "auto", "in-band-status". "auto" is the default, it usess MDIO for + management if fixed-link is not specified. Child nodes of the Ethernet controller are typically the individual PHY devices connected via the MDIO bus (sometimes the MDIO bus controller is separate). They are described in the phy.txt file in this same directory. +For non-MDIO PHY management see fixed-link.txt. diff --git a/drivers/of/of_mdio.c b/drivers/of/of_mdio.c index fdc60db60829..7c8c23cc6896 100644 --- a/drivers/of/of_mdio.c +++ b/drivers/of/of_mdio.c @@ -266,7 +266,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_phy_attach); bool of_phy_is_fixed_link(struct device_node *np) { struct device_node *dn; - int len; + int len, err; + const char *managed; /* New binding */ dn = of_get_child_by_name(np, "fixed-link"); @@ -275,6 +276,10 @@ bool of_phy_is_fixed_link(struct device_node *np) return true; } + err = of_property_read_string(np, "managed", &managed); + if (err == 0 && strcmp(managed, "auto") != 0) + return true; + /* Old binding */ if (of_get_property(np, "fixed-link", &len) && len == (5 * sizeof(__be32))) @@ -289,8 +294,18 @@ int of_phy_register_fixed_link(struct device_node *np) struct fixed_phy_status status = {}; struct device_node *fixed_link_node; const __be32 *fixed_link_prop; - int len; + int len, err; struct phy_device *phy; + const char *managed; + + err = of_property_read_string(np, "managed", &managed); + if (err == 0) { + if (strcmp(managed, "in-band-status") == 0) { + /* status is zeroed, namely its .link member */ + phy = fixed_phy_register(PHY_POLL, &status, np); + return IS_ERR(phy) ? PTR_ERR(phy) : 0; + } + } /* New binding */ fixed_link_node = of_get_child_by_name(np, "fixed-link"); |