From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Fainelli Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: phy: Add binding for vendor specific C45 MDIO address space Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 11:29:27 -0700 Message-ID: <3966b12c-5764-d19c-a14d-4618bf039ee5@gmail.com> References: <20180417090233.21548-1-vicentiu.galanopulo@nxp.com> <20180417090233.21548-2-vicentiu.galanopulo@nxp.com> <20180417182741.GC6688@lunn.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180417182741.GC6688@lunn.ch> Content-Language: en-US Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Lunn Cc: vicentiu.galanopulo@nxp.com, robh@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, davem@davemloft.net, marcel@holtmann.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, alexandru.marginean@nxp.com, madalin.bucur@nxp.com List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 04/17/2018 11:27 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:18:20AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> On 04/17/2018 02:02 AM, Vicentiu Galanopulo wrote: >>> The extra property enables the discovery on the MDIO bus >>> of the PHYs which have a vendor specific address space >>> for accessing the C45 MDIO registers. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Vicentiu Galanopulo >>> --- >>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/phy.txt | 6 ++++++ >>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) >>> >>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/phy.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/phy.txt >>> index d2169a5..82692e2 100644 >>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/phy.txt >>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/phy.txt >>> @@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ Optional Properties: >>> - reset-deassert-us: Delay after the reset was deasserted in microseconds. >>> If this property is missing the delay will be skipped. >>> >>> +- dev-addr: If set, it indicates the device address of the PHY to be used >>> + when accessing the C45 PHY registers over MDIO. It is used for vendor specific >>> + register space addresses that do no conform to standard address for the MDIO >>> + registers (e.g. MMD30) >> >> Rob made that comment earlier, and I have to ask again now, why don't we >> have the Clause 45 PHY binding be modified such that you have a reg >> property that has #address-size = 2? This should be entirely backwards >> compatible, but it would allow you to specify that device address in a >> more traditional way. > > Hi Florian > > I think we might get into trouble when we have both c22 and c45 on the > same bus. Two different reg formats. I would have to try it and see to > be sure. Hum indeed, we would no longer be able to mix and match on the same MDIO bus, unless we give C22 PHYs a "fake" second cell. Disregard that idea then, and let's stick with 'dev-addr'. -- Florian