From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: andrew@lunn.ch
Cc: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@sifive.com>,
radhey.shyam.pandey@xilinx.com, robert.hancock@calian.com,
michal.simek@xilinx.com, davem@davemloft.net, pabeni@redhat.com,
robh+dt@kernel.org, linux@armlinux.org.uk,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
robh@kernel.org, Greentime Hu <greentime.hu@sifive.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 net 4/4] net: axiemac: use a phandle to reference pcs_phy
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 15:56:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220329155609.674caa9c@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220329024921.2739338-5-andy.chiu@sifive.com>
On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 10:49:21 +0800 Andy Chiu wrote:
> In some SGMII use cases where both a fixed link external PHY and the
> internal PCS/PMA PHY need to be configured, we should explicitly use a
> phandle "pcs-phy" to get the reference to the PCS/PMA PHY. Otherwise, the
> driver would use "phy-handle" in the DT as the reference to both the
> external and the internal PCS/PMA PHY.
>
> In other cases where the core is connected to a SFP cage, we could still
> point phy-handle to the intenal PCS/PMA PHY, and let the driver connect
> to the SFP module, if exist, via phylink.
>
> Fixes: 1a02556086fc (net: axienet: Properly handle PCS/PMA PHY for 1000BaseX mode)
> Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@sifive.com>
> Reviewed-by: Greentime Hu <greentime.hu@sifive.com>
> Reviewed-by: Robert Hancock <robert.hancock@calian.com>
I'm not sure if this is a fix or adding support for a new configuration.
Andrew, WDYT?
If it really is a fix and needs to be backported we should take patch 2
out of this series, and post it separately later. Refactoring does not
belong in stable trees.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-29 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-29 2:49 [PATCH v7 net 0/4] Fix broken link on Xilinx's AXI Ethernet in SGMII mode Andy Chiu
2022-03-29 2:49 ` [PATCH v7 net 1/4] net: axienet: setup mdio unconditionally Andy Chiu
2022-03-29 2:49 ` [PATCH v7 net 2/4] net: axienet: factor out phy_node in struct axienet_local Andy Chiu
2022-03-29 2:49 ` [PATCH v7 net 3/4] dt-bindings: net: add pcs-handle attribute Andy Chiu
2022-04-04 18:08 ` Rob Herring
2022-03-29 2:49 ` [PATCH v7 net 4/4] net: axiemac: use a phandle to reference pcs_phy Andy Chiu
2022-03-29 22:56 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2022-03-30 1:25 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-03-30 1:48 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-03-30 8:50 ` Andy Chiu
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