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Commit 8fa10ef0 authored by Steve Douthit's avatar Steve Douthit Committed by Jeff Kirsher
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ixgbe: register a mdiobus



Most dsa devices expect a 'struct mii_bus' pointer to talk to switches
via the MII interface.

While this works for dsa devices, it will not work safely with Linux
PHYs in all configurations since the firmware of the ixgbe device may
be polling some PHY addresses in the background.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Douthit <stephend@silicom-usa.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Tested-by: default avatarAndrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
parent 1fb3a7a7
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