Re: [PATCH] ARM: i.MX6: update KSZ9031 phy fixup

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux-lFZ/pmaqli7XmaaqVzeoHQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 07:06:38PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 04:05:47PM +0200, Hubert Chaumette wrote:
> > Le mercredi 02 avril 2014 à 22:01 +0200, Anatolij Gustschin a écrit :
> > > It would be better to configure the pad skews in the board specific
> > > way in the device tree. There is a binding for ksz9021 PHY in
> > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/micrel-ksz9021.txt.
> > 
> > I wonder why it it's not used in arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q-sabrelite.dts
> > instead of ksz9021rn_phy_fixup().
> 
> Oh, if you look at arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl-sabrelite.dtsi on mainline
> tree today, you will find it.

Ergh.  So much for "DT describes the hardware, not the software
implementation."

commit 954c396756e3d31985f7bc6a414a988a4736a7d0
Author: Sean Cross <xobs-nXMMniAx+RbQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Date:   Wed Aug 21 01:46:12 2013 +0000

    net/phy: micrel: Add OF configuration support for ksz9021

    Some boards require custom PHY configuration, for example due to trace
    length differences.  Add the ability to configure these registers in
    order to get the PHY to function on boards that need it.

    Because PHYs are auto-detected based on MDIO device IDs, allow PHY
    configuration to be specified in the parent Ethernet device node if no
    PHY device node is present.

If we were describing the hardware, we'd create a node for the phy and put
the phy specific properties in there, and reference it from the ethernet
driver, and have some way to look up the phy node when we automatically
discover the phy.

Well, it's too late to do anything else now, we're stuck with this, and
I guess everyone's going to be stuffing the phy chip's configuration into
the ethernet device's node from now on. :(

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