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| author |   Steve Douthit <stephend@silicom-usa.com> | 2018-12-06 15:50:39 +0000 |
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| committer |   Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> | 2018-12-20 12:19:11 -0800 |
| commit | 8fa10ef01260937eb540b4e9bbc3efa023595993 (patch) | |
| tree | df75df918b587ebda260bc5200aac0f0641e55c6 /drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig | |
| parent | igb: Fix an issue that PME is not enabled during runtime suspend (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-8fa10ef01260937eb540b4e9bbc3efa023595993.tar.xz linux-dev-8fa10ef01260937eb540b4e9bbc3efa023595993.zip | |
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: Stephen Douthit <stephend@silicom-usa.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig index f05c91d4c469..31fb76ee9d82 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig @@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ config IXGBE tristate "Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express adapters support" depends on PCI select MDIO + select MDIO_DEVICE imply PTP_1588_CLOCK ---help--- This driver supports Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express family of |