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| author | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2012-11-12 17:03:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2012-11-16 10:20:52 +0100 |
| commit | fc8f5aded1cf9f5505c55694b36174621c7ac88c (patch) | |
| tree | 9d27d420875319912d21537261bb1a45b8590223 /drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig | |
| parent | 77b67063bb6bce6d475e910d3b886a606d0d91f7 (diff) | |
net: mvmdio: new Marvell MDIO driver
This patch adds a separate driver for the MDIO interface of the
Marvell Ethernet controllers. There are two reasons to have a separate
driver rather than including it inside the MAC driver itself:
*) The MDIO interface is shared by all Ethernet ports, so a driver
must guarantee non-concurrent accesses to this MDIO interface. The
most logical way is to have a separate driver that handles this
single MDIO interface, used by all Ethernet ports.
*) The MDIO interface is the same between the existing mv643xx_eth
driver and the new mvneta driver. Even though it is for now only
used by the mvneta driver, it will in the future be used by the
mv643xx_eth driver as well.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig index 0029934748bc..232ccb3cb08b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig @@ -31,6 +31,17 @@ config MV643XX_ETH Some boards that use the Discovery chipset are the Momenco Ocelot C and Jaguar ATX and Pegasos II. +config MVMDIO + tristate "Marvell MDIO interface support" + ---help--- + This driver supports the MDIO interface found in the network + interface units of the Marvell EBU SoCs (Kirkwood, Orion5x, + Dove, Armada 370 and Armada XP). + + For now, this driver is only needed for the MVNETA driver + (used on Armada 370 and XP), but it could be used in the + future by the MV643XX_ETH driver. + config PXA168_ETH tristate "Marvell pxa168 ethernet support" depends on CPU_PXA168 |