On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:35 AM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Andrey, > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 07:10:13PM -0800, Andrey Smirnov wrote: >> This commit changes the behaviour of the 'miitool'. Now in order to show >> PHY's link information 'miitool' should be invoked as such: >> >> miitool -s [PHY] >> >> Also, implment code to allow to register a dummy PHY device in order to >> be able to perform raw MDIO bus access. > > These are not necessarily dummy phy devices, in fact if they were you > wouldn't be interested in them ;) Poor choice of words, perhaps :-). Now that I think of it I think "driver-less" would be a better description. > > Do we need a way to register an individual phy? Wouldn't it be enough to > add a -f(orce) option to register all phys on all busses even if there's > nothing detected on them? If we go with "-f" we would still overwhelm the /dev with a lot of devices (in my use-case 96 of them), it's just we won't do that on the first run on "miitool". Andrey _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
