addresses from being probed and attaching something including ukphy(4)
to it. This is mainly necessarily for PHY switches that create duplicate
or fake PHYs on the bus that can corrupt the PHY state when accessed or
simply cause problems when ukphy(4) isolates the additional instances.
- Change miibus(4) to be a hinted bus, allowing to add child devices via
hints and to set their attach arguments (including for automatically
probed PHYs). This is mainly needed for PHY switches that violate IEEE
802.3 and don't even implement the basic register set so we can't probe
them automatically. However, the ability to alter the attach arguments
for automatically probed PHYs is also useful as for example it allows
to test (or tell a user to test) new variant of a PHY with a specific
driver by letting an existing driver attach to it via manipulating the
IDs without the need to touch the source code or to limit a Gigabit
Ethernet PHY to only announce up to Fast Ethernet in order to save
energy by limiting the capability mask. Generally, a driver has to
be hinted via hint.phydrv.X.at="miibusY" and hint.phydrv.X.phyno="Z"
(which already is sufficient to add phydrvX at miibusY at PHY address
Z). Then optionally the following attach arguments additionally can
be configured:
hint.phydrv.X.id1
hint.phydrv.X.id2
hint.phydrv.X.capmask
- Some minor cleanup.
Reviewed by: adrian, ray
99172ab4b8