From: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, jason@lakedaemon.net,
gregory.clement@free-electrons.com,
sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com,
thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com, nadavh@marvell.com,
linux@armlinux.org.uk, mw@semihalf.com, stefanc@marvell.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 08/18] net: mvpp2: make the phy optional
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:50:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170728015033.GD24728@kwain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170726162000.GJ12049@lunn.ch>
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Hi Andrew,
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 06:20:00PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 03:48:38PM +0200, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> > SFP ports do not necessarily need to have an Ethernet PHY between the
> > SoC and the actual physical port. However, the driver currently makes
> > the "phy" property mandatory, contrary to what is stated in the Device
> > Tree binding.
> >
> > To allow handling the PPv2 controller on those boards, this patch makes
> > the PHY optional, and aligns the PPv2 driver on its device tree
> > documentation.
>
> It is an architectural question...
>
> but with the boards i have with an SFF port, i actually use a
> fixed-phy to represent the SFF. Then nothing special is needed.
I was not aware of the fixed-phy, that might work for us here.
Thanks for the hint!
> Also, Russell King posted his phylink patches. Once accepted, you are
> going to want to re-write some of this to make use of that code.
And there's that as well.
Thanks!
Antoine
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Antoine Ténart, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-28 1:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-24 13:48 [PATCH net-next 00/18] net: mvpp2: MAC/GoP configuration and optional PHYs Antoine Tenart
2017-07-24 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next 01/18] net: mvpp2: unify register definitions coding style Antoine Tenart
2017-07-24 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next 02/18] net: mvpp2: fix the synchronization module bypass macro name Antoine Tenart
2017-07-24 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next 03/18] net: mvpp2: set the SMI PHY address when connecting to the PHY Antoine Tenart
2017-07-24 16:40 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2017-07-25 8:42 ` Antoine Tenart
2017-07-26 16:08 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-07-28 1:49 ` Antoine Tenart
2017-07-28 4:21 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-08-22 14:41 ` Antoine Tenart
2017-08-22 14:50 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-08-23 10:40 ` [EXT] " Stefan Chulski
2017-08-23 12:34 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-08-23 13:30 ` Stefan Chulski
2017-08-23 13:34 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-07-24 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next 04/18] net: mvpp2: move the mii configuration in the ndo_open path Antoine Tenart
2017-07-26 16:11 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-07-28 1:44 ` Antoine Tenart
2017-07-24 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next 05/18] net: mvpp2: initialize the GMAC when using a port Antoine Tenart
2017-07-26 16:14 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-07-24 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next 06/18] net: mvpp2: initialize the XLG MAC " Antoine Tenart
2017-07-24 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next 07/18] net: mvpp2: initialize the GoP Antoine Tenart
2017-07-26 16:16 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-07-24 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next 08/18] net: mvpp2: make the phy optional Antoine Tenart
2017-07-26 16:20 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-07-28 1:50 ` Antoine Tenart [this message]
2017-07-24 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next 09/18] net: mvpp2: use named interrupts Antoine Tenart
2017-07-24 16:49 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2017-07-25 8:45 ` Antoine Tenart
2017-07-24 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next 10/18] net: mvpp2: use the GoP interrupt for link status changes Antoine Tenart
2017-07-24 22:58 ` Marcin Wojtas
2017-07-25 8:47 ` Antoine Tenart
2017-07-25 13:17 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-07-26 0:07 ` Antoine Tenart
2017-07-26 16:26 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-07-26 19:38 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-08-23 8:25 ` Antoine Tenart
2017-08-23 15:24 ` [EXT] " Stefan Chulski
2017-08-23 16:04 ` Antoine Tenart
2017-08-23 21:05 ` Marcin Wojtas
2017-08-24 10:59 ` Antoine Tenart
2017-07-24 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next 11/18] Documentation/bindings: net: marvell-pp2: add the system controller Antoine Tenart
2017-07-24 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next 12/18] Documentation/bindings: net: marvell-pp2: add the interrupt-names Antoine Tenart
2017-07-24 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next 13/18] arm64: dts: marvell: cp110: use named interrupts for the Ethernet ports Antoine Tenart
2017-07-24 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next 14/18] arm64: dts: marvell: cp110: add PPv2 port interrupts Antoine Tenart
2017-07-24 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next 15/18] arm64: dts: marvell: add a reference to the sysctrl syscon in the ppv2 node Antoine Tenart
2017-07-24 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next 16/18] arm64: dts: marvell: mcbin: enable more networking ports Antoine Tenart
2017-07-24 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next 17/18] arm64: dts: marvell: 7040-db: enable the SFP port Antoine Tenart
2017-07-24 13:48 ` [PATCH net-next 18/18] arm64: dts: marvell: 8040-db: enable the SFP ports Antoine Tenart
2017-07-24 23:56 ` [PATCH net-next 00/18] net: mvpp2: MAC/GoP configuration and optional PHYs Marcin Wojtas
2017-07-25 8:48 ` Antoine Tenart
2017-07-25 10:45 ` Marcin Wojtas
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