From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com (Antoine Tenart) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:50:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH net-next 08/18] net: mvpp2: make the phy optional In-Reply-To: <20170726162000.GJ12049@lunn.ch> References: <20170724134848.19330-1-antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com> <20170724134848.19330-9-antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com> <20170726162000.GJ12049@lunn.ch> Message-ID: <20170728015033.GD24728@kwain> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Andrew, On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 06:20:00PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 03:48:38PM +0200, Antoine Tenart wrote: > > SFP ports do not necessarily need to have an Ethernet PHY between the > > SoC and the actual physical port. However, the driver currently makes > > the "phy" property mandatory, contrary to what is stated in the Device > > Tree binding. > > > > To allow handling the PPv2 controller on those boards, this patch makes > > the PHY optional, and aligns the PPv2 driver on its device tree > > documentation. > > It is an architectural question... > > but with the boards i have with an SFF port, i actually use a > fixed-phy to represent the SFF. Then nothing special is needed. I was not aware of the fixed-phy, that might work for us here. Thanks for the hint! > Also, Russell King posted his phylink patches. Once accepted, you are > going to want to re-write some of this to make use of that code. And there's that as well. Thanks! Antoine -- Antoine T?nart, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: not available URL: