Re: [PATCH 1/3][v2] net: phy: introduce 1000BASE-KX and 10GBASE-KR

[Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>]

Le 15/01/2016 14:57, Sebastian Hesselbarth a écrit :
> On 15.01.2016 05:01, Shaohui Xie wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew@lunn.ch]
>>> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 12:44 AM
>>> To: shh.xie@gmail.com
>>> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-
>>> dev@lists.ozlabs.org; f.fainelli@gmail.com; davem@davemloft.net; Shaohui Xie
>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3][v2] net: phy: introduce 1000BASE-KX and 10GBASE-KR
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 04:23:59PM +0800, shh.xie@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> From: Shaohui Xie <Shaohui.Xie@freescale.com>
>>>>
>>>> This commit adds necessary definitions for the PHY layer to recognize
>>>> backplane Ethernet 1000BASE-KX and 10GBASE-KR as valid PHY interfaces,
>>>> "1000base-kx" for 1000BASE-KX, "10gbase-kr" for 10GBASE-KR.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Shaohui Xie <Shaohui.Xie@freescale.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> changes in v2:
>>>> new patch.
> 
> Shaohui,
> 
> it would be more useful to describe _what_ is new here compared to v1.
> 
> Anyway:
> 
>>>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt | 4 ++--
>>>>  include/linux/phy.h                                | 6 ++++++
>>>>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt
>>>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt
>>>> index 5d88f37..1166a5c 100644
>>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt
>>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ethernet.txt
>>>> @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ The following properties are common to the Ethernet
>>> controllers:
>>>>    the maximum frame size (there's contradiction in ePAPR).
>>>>  - phy-mode: string, operation mode of the PHY interface; supported values are
>>>>    "mii", "gmii", "sgmii", "qsgmii", "tbi", "rev-mii", "rmii",
>>>> "rgmii", "rgmii-id",
>>>> -  "rgmii-rxid", "rgmii-txid", "rtbi", "smii", "xgmii"; this is now a
>>>> de-facto
>>>> -  standard property;
>>>> +  "rgmii-rxid", "rgmii-txid", "rtbi", "smii", "xgmii", "1000base-kx",
>>>> + "10gbase-kr";  this is now a de-facto standard property;
>>>
>>> I know very little about this, so i'm just asking a question. None of the other
>>> interface modes contain a bit rate. So is the bit rate needed for your two new
>>> modes?
>>
>> 1000BASE-KX and 10GBASE-KR are terms in IEEE802.3, so as XGMII and GMII. 
>> There are interfaces could be different bit rates but same types, 
>> e.g. 100BASE-LX10 and 1000BASE-LX10, or 40GBASE-KR4 and 100GBASE-KR4, 
>> having bit rate is clear to represent hardware.
>>
> 
> If you look at the list of possible values for "phy-mode" you'd see that
> none of it describes a PHY-to-PHY connection but all are for MAC-to-PHY
> connections. Also, names above suggest it already: MII is short for
> media _independent_ interface.
> 
> I copy Andrew's concerns and think that neither 10000base-kx nor
> 10gbase-kr belong in the list of phy-mode properties.

I concur with that as well, if the phy connection does not really matter
here, or does not seem like a good fit, maybe we should have a different
property, or just define the hardware interface a little differently?
-- 
Florian