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, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/dm9000.h b/include/linux/dm9000.h
index a3750462f9e3..fc82446b6425 100644
--- a/include/linux/dm9000.h
+++ b/include/linux/dm9000.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #define DM9000_PLATF_32BITONLY  (0x0004)
 #define DM9000_PLATF_EXT_PHY    (0x0008)
 #define DM9000_PLATF_NO_EEPROM  (0x0010)
+#define DM9000_PLATF_SIMPLE_PHY (0x0020)  /* Use NSR to find LinkStatus */
 
 /* platfrom data for platfrom device structure's platfrom_data field */