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>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig
index 0029934..232ccb3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig
@@ -31,6 +31,17 @@
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