From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@microchip.com>,
Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next PATCH 10/16] net: macb: Move PCS settings to PCS callbacks
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 23:19:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YVzPgTAS0grKl6CN@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ddb81bf5-af74-1619-b083-0dba189a5061@seco.com>
On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 05:44:11PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
> At the very least, it should be clearer what things are allowed to fail
> for what reasons. Several callbacks are void when things can fail under
> the hood (e.g. link_up or an_restart). And the API seems to have been
> primarily designed around PCSs which are tightly-coupled to their MACs.
It has indeed been designed around that, because that's where the
technology that has been available to me has been. It is only in
the recent few years that we are starting to see designs where
the PCS is separate.
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-04 19:15 [RFC net-next PATCH 00/16] Add support for Xilinx PCS Sean Anderson
2021-10-04 19:15 ` [RFC net-next PATCH 01/16] dt-bindings: net: Add pcs property Sean Anderson
2021-10-05 9:39 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-10-05 16:18 ` Sean Anderson
2021-10-12 13:16 ` Rob Herring
2021-10-12 16:18 ` Sean Anderson
2021-10-12 16:44 ` Rob Herring
2021-10-12 17:01 ` Sean Anderson
2021-10-04 19:15 ` [RFC net-next PATCH 02/16] dt-bindings: net: Add binding for Xilinx PCS Sean Anderson
2021-10-05 12:26 ` Rob Herring
2021-10-04 19:15 ` [RFC net-next PATCH 03/16] net: sfp: Fix typo in state machine debug string Sean Anderson
2021-10-04 21:31 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-10-04 19:15 ` [RFC net-next PATCH 04/16] net: phylink: Move phylink_set_pcs before phylink_create Sean Anderson
2021-10-05 9:43 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-10-04 19:15 ` [RFC net-next PATCH 05/16] net: phylink: Automatically attach PCS devices Sean Anderson
2021-10-05 9:48 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-10-05 16:42 ` Sean Anderson
2021-10-07 10:23 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-10-08 0:14 ` Sean Anderson
2021-10-04 19:15 ` [RFC net-next PATCH 06/16] net: phylink: Add function for optionally adding a PCS Sean Anderson
2021-10-05 9:51 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-10-05 13:43 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-10-05 16:17 ` Sean Anderson
2021-10-04 19:15 ` [RFC net-next PATCH 07/16] net: phylink: Add helpers for c22 registers without MDIO Sean Anderson
2021-10-22 12:33 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-10-04 19:15 ` [RFC net-next PATCH 08/16] net: macb: Clean up macb_validate Sean Anderson
2021-10-04 23:04 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-10-04 23:09 ` Sean Anderson
2021-10-07 13:22 ` Nicolas Ferre
2021-10-08 0:20 ` Sean Anderson
2021-10-08 8:12 ` Nicolas Ferre
2021-10-04 19:15 ` [RFC net-next PATCH 09/16] net: macb: Move most of mac_prepare to mac_config Sean Anderson
2021-10-04 23:05 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-10-04 23:09 ` Sean Anderson
2021-10-04 19:15 ` [RFC net-next PATCH 10/16] net: macb: Move PCS settings to PCS callbacks Sean Anderson
2021-10-05 10:06 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-10-05 16:03 ` Sean Anderson
2021-10-05 18:53 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-10-05 21:44 ` Sean Anderson
2021-10-05 22:19 ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
2021-10-07 10:34 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-10-07 11:29 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-10-07 16:23 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-10-07 17:04 ` Sean Anderson
2021-10-04 19:15 ` [RFC net-next PATCH 11/16] net: macb: Support restarting PCS autonegotiation Sean Anderson
2021-10-04 19:15 ` [RFC net-next PATCH 12/16] net: macb: Support external PCSs Sean Anderson
2021-10-04 19:15 ` [RFC net-next PATCH 13/16] net: phy: Export get_phy_c22_id Sean Anderson
2021-10-05 10:12 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-10-04 19:15 ` [RFC net-next PATCH 14/16] net: mdio: Add helper functions for accessing MDIO devices Sean Anderson
2021-10-04 19:15 ` [RFC net-next PATCH 15/16] net: pcs: Add Xilinx PCS driver Sean Anderson
2021-10-04 19:15 ` [RFC net-next PATCH 16/16] net: sfp: Add quirk to ignore PHYs Sean Anderson
2021-10-04 22:01 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-10-05 10:33 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-10-05 16:45 ` Sean Anderson
2021-10-05 18:10 ` Sean Anderson
2021-10-05 19:12 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-10-05 20:38 ` Sean Anderson
2021-10-05 22:17 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2021-10-05 23:16 ` Sean Anderson
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