Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:59:04 +0100 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] mvneta: SGMII-based in-band link state signaling |
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> But there is no MDIO, because SGMII AFAIK doesn't need MDIO. > SGMII has in-band status, but for some reason it seems currently > linux is not ready for such setup - this is what my patch addresses.
Hacking the fixed-link driver feels wrong to me. You probably want to implement an SGMII-link driver. With some refactoring you can probably re-use some of the fixed-link driver code, but it should be a separate driver, with its own DT binding.
But i'm no export here. So lets see what others say.
Andrew
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