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From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Jie Luo <quic_luoj@quicinc.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, robh+dt@kernel.org,
	krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org, conor+dt@kernel.org,
	hkallweit1@gmail.com, corbet@lwn.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/6] net: phy: at803x: add QCA8084 ethernet phy support
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:00:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZWWsLf/w82N0vwBq@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9c4c1fe7-5d71-4bb2-8b92-f4e9a136e93d@quicinc.com>

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 03:16:45PM +0800, Jie Luo wrote:
> > > The interface mode is passed in the .config_init, which is configured
> > > by the PCS driver, the hardware register is located in the PCS, this
> > > driver will be pushed later.
> > 
> > Is this the same as how the syqca807x works? Can the PCS driver be
> > shared by these two drivers?
> 
> I am not sure syqca807x, would you point me the code path of this driver?
> 
> > 
> > What i don't like at the moment is that we have two driver
> > developments going on at once for hardware which seems very similar,
> > but no apparent cooperation?
> > 
> > 	Andrew
> 
> The PCS of qca8084 is the PHY PCS, which should be new PCS driver,
> in the previous chips, we don't have this kind of PHY PCS.

No. PCS drivers are for MAC-side PCS drivers, not PHY-side PCS drivers.

                     +-------------
		     |     PHY
MAC---PCS --- link --- PCS --- ...
       ^             |  ^
       |	     +--|----------
  For this PCS          |
                  Not for this PCS

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-28  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-26  6:07 [PATCH v6 0/6] add qca8084 ethernet phy driver Luo Jie
2023-11-26  6:07 ` [PATCH v6 1/6] net: phy: introduce core support for phy-mode = "10g-qxgmii" Luo Jie
2023-11-26 17:20   ` Andrew Lunn
2023-11-27  6:12     ` Jie Luo
2023-11-27  8:43     ` Russell King (Oracle)
2023-11-26  6:07 ` [PATCH v6 2/6] dt-bindings: net: ethernet-controller: add 10g-qxgmii mode Luo Jie
2023-11-26 17:20   ` Andrew Lunn
2023-11-26  6:07 ` [PATCH v6 3/6] net: phy: at803x: add QCA8084 ethernet phy support Luo Jie
2023-11-26 17:31   ` Andrew Lunn
2023-11-27  6:21     ` Jie Luo
2023-11-27 13:22       ` Andrew Lunn
2023-11-28  7:16         ` Jie Luo
2023-11-28  9:00           ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
2023-11-28  9:50             ` Jie Luo
2023-11-28 10:35               ` Russell King (Oracle)
2023-11-29 10:34                 ` Jie Luo
2023-11-29 12:04                   ` Vladimir Oltean
2023-12-01  8:05                     ` Jie Luo
2023-11-26  6:07 ` [PATCH v6 4/6] net: phy: at803x: add the function phydev_id_is_qca808x Luo Jie
2023-11-26  6:07 ` [PATCH v6 5/6] net: phy: at803x: Add qca8084_config_init function Luo Jie
2023-11-26  6:07 ` [PATCH v6 6/6] net: phy: qca8084: add qca8084_link_change_notify Luo Jie

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