Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for configuring the PHY connection interface

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:30:19 -0500

Andy Fleming wrote:
> Most PHYs connect to an ethernet controller over a GMII or MII
> interface.  However, a growing number are connected over
> different interfaces, such as RGMII or SGMII.
> 
> The ethernet driver will tell the PHY what type of connection it
> is by setting it manually, or passing it in through phy_connect
> (or phy_attach).
> 
> Changes include:
> * Updates to documentation
> * Updates to other PHY Lib consumers
> * Changes to PHY Lib to add interface support
> * Some minor changes to whitespace in phy.h
> * interface values now passed to gianfar
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Fleming <[email-masked]>

ACK technical content, but

Applying 'Add support for configuring the PHY connection interface'

error: patch failed: arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_soc.c:211
error: arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_soc.c: patch does not apply