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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.io>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>,
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com,
	Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.xyz>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] net: phy: realtek: add disable RX internal delay mode
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:39:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170822133906.GG24555@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170822040400.12166-4-icenowy@aosc.io>

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:03:59PM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
> From: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.xyz>
> 
> Some RTL8211E chips have broken GbE function, which needs a hack to
> fix. It's said that this fix will affect the performance on not-buggy
> PHYs, so it should only be enabled on boards with the broken PHY.

I would not call this a broken PHY. It is a question of board
design. If you have shorter tracks, you need a delay. If you have long
tracks, you don't. Hence the four RGMII modes, so you can select if
the delay is needed or not, depending on your board design.

> Currently only some Pine64+ boards are known to have this issue.

Design feature.

Please remove all reference to bug.
 
> This hack is said to disable RX relay for RTL8211E according to Realtek.
> So implement it as RGMII-TXID mode.

Do we know that the TX lines do have a delay after making this change?
We need to be careful here. We will get into a mess if this is
actually RGMII not RGMII_TXID, and somebody designs a board which
needs RGMII-TXID.

> +#include <linux/of.h>
>  #include <linux/phy.h>
>  #include <linux/module.h>

> +static int rtl8211e_config_init(struct phy_device *phydev)
> +{
> +	struct device *dev = &phydev->mdio.dev;
> +	struct device_node *of_node = dev->of_node;

You don't appear to use of_node, nor dev. Please remove, along with
the header file.

    Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-22 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-22  4:03 [PATCH v2 0/4] Workaround broken RTL8211E on some Pine64+ boards Icenowy Zheng
2017-08-22  4:03 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] net: stmmac: dwmac-sun8i: support RGMII modes with PHY internal delay Icenowy Zheng
2017-08-22  4:03 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] net: phy: realtek: change macro name for page select register Icenowy Zheng
2017-08-22  4:03 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] net: phy: realtek: add disable RX internal delay mode Icenowy Zheng
2017-08-22 13:39   ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2017-08-24  8:05     ` icenowy
2017-08-24 13:12       ` Andrew Lunn
2017-08-24  2:35   ` kbuild test robot
2017-08-22  4:04 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] arm64: allwinner: a64: disable the RTL8211E internal RX delay on Pine64+ Icenowy Zheng

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