DM9000: Allow the use of the NSR register to get link status.

The DM9000's internal PHY reports a copy of the link status
in the NSR register of the chip. Reading the status when
polling for link status is faster as it eliminates the need
to sleep, but does not print as much information.

Add an platform flag to force this behaviour, and a Kconfig
option to allow it to be forced to the faster method always.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index 287d0873c60d..4d69474b6125 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -938,6 +938,15 @@ config DM9000
           To compile this driver as a module, choose M here.  The module
           will be called dm9000.
 
+config DM9000_FORCE_SIMPLE_PHY_POLL
+        bool "Force simple NSR based PHY polling"
+        depends on DM9000
+        ---help---
+          This configuration forces the DM9000 to use the NSR's LinkStatus
+          bit to determine if the link is up or down instead of the more
+          costly MII PHY reads. Note, this will not work if the chip is
+          operating with an external PHY.
+
 config ENC28J60
         tristate "ENC28J60 support"
         depends on EXPERIMENTAL && SPI && NET_ETHERNET