Align exception (was: MMC cards support)

[Bernd Walter]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 01:59:51PM +0300, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 10:08:25PM +0300 Stanislav Sedov mentioned:
> > 
> > Well, I downloaded the entire kernel via tftp, so the controller was probably
> > configured correctly. Probably, u-boot resets it after transfer (have not checked
> > this yet).
> > 
> 
> Ok, I've solved my problem with if_ate by hardwiring MAC into the driver and
> by commenting out the lines 1007-1008 in if_ates./c:
>        if (phy != 0)
>                return (0xffff);
> 
> My phy (rtl8102BL) is on 0x1D address, that forced the mii driver to return 0xffff
> for all request? What this conditiond was intnded for? Probably we can strip this out?

I thought it was already out - I needed it myself for the switch I use
on my boards, which uses multiple phy addresses for al his registers,
but maybe it never went out of perforce.
It had historic reasons and Warner already said that it has no reason
to be there right now.

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