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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Rob Herring , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Conor Dooley , Yixun Lan , Maxime Coquelin , Alexandre Torgue , Richard Cochran , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Albert Ou , Alexandre Ghiti , "Russell King (Oracle)" , Yanteng Si , Yao Zi , Vladimir Oltean , Lad Prabhakar , Choong Yong Liang , Maxime Chevallier , Chen-Yu Tsai , Shangjuan Wei , Boon Khai Ng , Quentin Schulz , Giuseppe Cavallaro , Jose Abreu , netdev@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, spacemit@lists.linux.dev, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Longbin Li Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] dt-bindings: net: Add support for Spacemit K3 dwmac Message-ID: References: <20260120043609.910302-1-inochiama@gmail.com> <20260120043609.910302-2-inochiama@gmail.com> <9334905d-d11b-49d4-92b1-61e8cf644f0f@lunn.ch> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9334905d-d11b-49d4-92b1-61e8cf644f0f@lunn.ch> On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 02:48:12PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > IIRC, the "phy" clock is used to pass the phy from the mac core, I will > > double check if it is possible to connect to the phy directly. > > Are you saying this is the reference clock output from the MAC being > fed to the PHY? That would be a clock provider, not a clock consumer. > > Or is it the reference clock output from the PHY going to the MAC? > Then the MAC would be a consumer. > > And there are some designs which have a third party generate the > clock, and both the MAC and the PHY consume it. > I have confirmed the clock is directly from the the clock tree and is consumed only by the PHY. It seems like I have got a wrong information about this. So let's remove it and let the phy consume the clock if it use this clock. Regards, Inochi