Adam Kropelin wrote:
> Seewer Philippe wrote:
>
>>Most AMD pcnet chips support up to 32 external PHYs. This patch
>>introduces basic PHY selection/switching support, by adding two
>>new module parameters:
>>-maxphy: how many PHYs the card supports
>>-usephy: which phy to use instead of eeprom default
>>
>>Maxphy is necessary in order to check the range of usephy and may
>>be overriden inside the module.
>
>
> It seems a bit pointless for the range check of a user-supplied value to
> be driven by another user-supplied value.
I just want to make sure and there's the possibility of supplying only maxphy
and let the autoswitch algorithm decide...
>
>
>>If only maxphy is present I've implemented an algorithm which checks
>>the link state on all PHYs and uses the one that has a link.
>
>
> Knowing how many PHYs to scan is potentially useful, but how about
> determining that at runtime? Missing PHYs should be detectable with a
> timeout or similar. Too risky?
Actually its possible to query them with mii and all non-present phy's
should "return" 0xffff. I wanted my changes to have no impact on pcnet
cards with only one phy, thats why.
>
> --Adam
>
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