Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v4 26/28] net: dsa: permit driver to provide custom phy_mii_mask for slave mdiobus

Florian Fainelli
2021-05-08T15:52:45Z

On 5/7/2021 5:29 PM, Ansuel Smith wrote:
> Some switch doesn't have a 1:1 map phy to port. Permit driver to provide
> a custom phy_mii_mask so the internal mdiobus can correctly use the
> provided phy reg as it can differ from the port reg.
> The qca8k driver is provided as a first user of this function.

Why not have qca8k be in charge of allocating its internal MDIO bus like
what mv88e6xxx or bcm_sf2 do? That would allow you to do all sorts of
customization there and you could skip having patches 23 and 24.
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Florian