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| author | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2014-05-16 14:14:05 (GMT) |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-05-16 21:19:22 (GMT) |
| commit | 3be2a49e5c08d268f8af0dd4fe89a24ea8cdc339 (patch) | |
| tree | 83d32019dd08257b68821bafa59bbcd4e089ce76 /include | |
| parent | a75951217472c522c324adb0a4de3ba69d656ef5 (diff) | |
| download | linux-3be2a49e5c08d268f8af0dd4fe89a24ea8cdc339.tar.xz | |
of: provide a binding for fixed link PHYs
Some Ethernet MACs have a "fixed link", and are not connected to a
normal MDIO-managed PHY device. For those situations, a Device Tree
binding allows to describe a "fixed link" using a special PHY node.
This patch adds:
* A documentation for the fixed PHY Device Tree binding.
* An of_phy_is_fixed_link() function that an Ethernet driver can call
on its PHY phandle to find out whether it's a fixed link PHY or
not. It should typically be used to know if
of_phy_register_fixed_link() should be called.
* An of_phy_register_fixed_link() function that instantiates the
fixed PHY into the PHY subsystem, so that when the driver calls
of_phy_connect(), the PHY device associated to the OF node will be
found.
These two additional functions also support the old fixed-link Device
Tree binding used on PowerPC platforms, so that ultimately, the
network device drivers for those platforms could be converted to use
of_phy_is_fixed_link() and of_phy_register_fixed_link() instead of
of_phy_connect_fixed_link(), while keeping compatibility with their
respective Device Tree bindings.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/of_mdio.h | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/of_mdio.h b/include/linux/of_mdio.h index 881a7c3..0aa367e 100644 --- a/include/linux/of_mdio.h +++ b/include/linux/of_mdio.h @@ -72,4 +72,19 @@ static inline struct mii_bus *of_mdio_find_bus(struct device_node *mdio_np) } #endif /* CONFIG_OF */ +#if defined(CONFIG_OF) && defined(CONFIG_FIXED_PHY) +extern int of_phy_register_fixed_link(struct device_node *np); +extern bool of_phy_is_fixed_link(struct device_node *np); +#else +static inline int of_phy_register_fixed_link(struct device_node *np) +{ + return -ENOSYS; +} +static inline bool of_phy_is_fixed_link(struct device_node *np) +{ + return false; +} +#endif + + #endif /* __LINUX_OF_MDIO_H */ |