From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:29:51 +0100

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> I just gave it a try on our pcm037 board and it turns out that it
> doesn't work.
> 
> The reason for this is not the driver, it's just that the hardware
> designers got the direction of the phy detect pin wrong. The pcm037 uses
> an internal phy, but the detection pin is pulled high :(
> 
> The old driver worked around this by falling back to the internal phy
> when no valid phy id is detected. The new driver lacks this fallback.
> 
> Instead of falling back we could also introduce a
> SMSC911X_FORCE_INTERNAL_PHY flag.
> 
> What do you think?

You could pass this "invert detection pin" state in the platform
device private.
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