Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: phy: aquantia: add USXGMII support

[Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>]

On 5/22/19 1:18 PM, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> On 22.05.2019 22:07, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> On 5/22/19 12:58 PM, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>>> So far we didn't support mode USXGMII, and in order to not break the
>>> two Freescale boards mode XGMII was accepted for the AQR107 family
>>> even though it doesn't support XGMII. Add USXGMII support to the
>>> Aquantia PHY driver and change the phy connection type for the two
>>> boards.
>>>
>>> As an additional note: Even though the handle is named aqr106
>>> there seem to be LS1046A boards with an AQR107.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
>>
>> You can probably split the DTS changes and the PHY driver changes into a
>> separate commits and just have the DTS changes come last? With that:
>>
> To split the patches I would have to do:
> 1. Add USXGMII support to Aquantia PHY driver
> 2. DTS changes
> 3. Don't accept XGMII any longer in Aquantia PHY driver
> This seemed to me to be too much overhead considering the very small
> change.
> 
> Just making the DTS changes a separate patch would break bisecting.

I fail to see how, you can't make use of "usxgmii" in DTS unless you
define that as as a valid phy-mode property value (patch #1), and you
can't have that possibly working until patch #2. Until then using
"xgmii" is still supported and going to work.

Once patch #3 which brings DTS lands in, you could possibly deprecate
"xgmii" in the Aquantia PHY driver (or rather issue a big warning).
-- 
Florian