From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B31FC433E9 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 22:13:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CD9523B42 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 22:13:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730961AbhAVWNK (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:13:10 -0500 Received: from 95-165-96-9.static.spd-mgts.ru ([95.165.96.9]:32998 "EHLO blackbox.su" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729347AbhAVWM6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:12:58 -0500 Received: from metabook.localnet (metabook.metanet [192.168.2.2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blackbox.su (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CD5D782100; Sat, 23 Jan 2021 01:12:26 +0300 (MSK) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=blackbox.su; s=mail; t=1611353546; bh=lWPKTNit76qJXZ2b90ZpRVzOpxGts5CbDZzgBth5kuY=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=f1No600Ti2Sni2KtM1qQEUBkC9ZQ4oNb5os7ubkDXo+RvP8o5iLGnMBe4zb9sUryj PRujFxWri88BXD9gnxzBydFlh7WhiD4l4FY0gRKMpDfFa4OOOOE7c0ArzHCKRka3lA R5eFYAqdjHzBEb+zwe7xdTHtzX8YG18WI6DB1H2tQ1X889EfGReCKyZKh0I3bqCaVn Nkc2tLbQXNjFq9B2H9tRJBfhkbO/wb73YGhQ6oZN2rTS/vUXYd3brcJmkVG+i37S5x Z0jZZJxypPnETScVngYPQ0bwTgLJFWj8VEStPkDtgR2WMtEaxJEkZJrX71XtT00ZVx sXMgzFhT1ZpRg== From: Sergej Bauer To: Florian Fainelli Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, andrew@lunn.ch, "David S. Miller" , Jakub Kicinski , Bryan Whitehead , UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com, Simon Horman , Mark Einon , Madalin Bucur , Arnd Bergmann , Masahiro Yamada , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] lan743x: add virtual PHY for PHY-less devices Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 01:11:34 +0300 Message-ID: <2487479.v6ibHXAnzy@metabook> In-Reply-To: References: <20210122214247.6536-1-sbauer@blackbox.su> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On Saturday, January 23, 2021 12:52:48 AM MSK Florian Fainelli wrote: > On 1/22/2021 1:42 PM, Sergej Bauer wrote: > > From: sbauer@blackbox.su > > > > v1->v2: > > switch to using of fixed_phy as was suggested by Andrew and Florian > > also features-related parts are removed > > > > Previous versions can be found at: > > v1: > > initial version > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/17/1272 > > > > Signed-off-by: Sergej Bauer > > You are not explaining why you need this and why you are second guessing > the fixed PHY MII emulation that already exists. You really need to do a > better job at describing your changes and why the emulation offered by > swphy.c is not enough for your use case. ok, I'll try to accomplish it with swphy. -- Regards, Sergej.