From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752410AbcGAPNY (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2016 11:13:24 -0400 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch ([178.209.37.122]:34255 "EHLO vps0.lunn.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752199AbcGAPNV (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jul 2016 11:13:21 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 17:13:04 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn To: Kedareswara rao Appana Cc: appanad@xilinx.com, michal.simek@xilinx.com, nicolas.ferre@atmel.com, punnaia@xilinx.com, anirudh@xilinx.com, harinik@xilinx.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: ethernet: Add support for gmii2rgmii converter Message-ID: <20160701151304.GE6804@lunn.ch> References: <1467354012-7364-1-git-send-email-appanad@xilinx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1467354012-7364-1-git-send-email-appanad@xilinx.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 11:50:10AM +0530, Kedareswara rao Appana wrote: > This patch series does the following > ---> Add support for gmii2rgmii converter. How generic is this gmii2rgmii IP block? Could it be used with any GMII and RGMII device? Should it be placed in drivers/net/phy, so making it easier to reuse? Also, Russell Kings phylink might be a more natural structure for this. It is hard to know when those patches will land, but it might be worth looking at. Andrew