[PATCH 5/9] arm64: dts: marvell: mcbin: add comphy references to Ethernet ports

[antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com (Antoine Tenart)]

Hi Andrew,

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 03:04:37PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:50:12AM +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:58:10AM +0200, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> > > This patch adds comphy phandles to the Ethernet ports in the mcbin
> > > device tree. The comphy is used to configure the serdes PHYs used by
> > > these ports.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-8040-mcbin.dts | 3 +++
> > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-8040-mcbin.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-8040-mcbin.dts
> > > index acf5c7d16d79..9a3b4a1fd445 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-8040-mcbin.dts
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-8040-mcbin.dts
> > > @@ -223,6 +223,7 @@
> > >  &cpm_eth0 {
> > >  	status = "okay";
> > >  	phy = <&phy0>;
> > > +	phys = <&cpm_comphy4 0>;
> > >  	phy-mode = "10gbase-kr";
> > 
> > Since the 'phys' generic PHY property is unrelated to the 'phy*' Ethernet PHY 
> > properties that surround it, its location might be confusing. I think it 
> > should appear below those two other properties like you did below ...
> 
> Yes, i agree. It is confusing enough as it is, so we should not make
> it worse.
> 
> I even wonder if it is worth doing some renaming?
> 
>   	phy = <&ethernet_phy0>;
>   	phy-mode = "10gbase-kr";
>  	phys = <&cpm_generic_comphy4 0>;

We could also add an extra comment without renaming the comphy node, something
like:

	/* Network PHY */
	phy = <&ethernet_phy0>;
	phy-mode = "10gbase-kr";
	/* Generic PHY, providing serdes lanes */
	phys = <&cpm_comphy4 0>;

Thanks,
Antoine

-- 
Antoine T?nart, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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