[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 1/2] net: phy: ti: Allow the driver to be more configurable

[Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>]

Tom

On 03/31/2016 09:11 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 07:42:39AM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
>
>> Not all devices use the same internal delay or fifo depth.
>> Add the ability to set the internal delay for rx or tx and the
>> fifo depth via the config file.  If the value is not set in the
>> config file then set the delay to the default.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>
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>>  drivers/net/phy/ti.c                 | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>>  include/dt-bindings/net/ti-dp83867.h | 35 ++++++++++++++++++
> I don't think this is taking things down the right path.  If it's a DT
> binding, it comes from the device tree (which is fine and good!) but
> that means the binding needs to meet the usual reviews and not just come
> in via U-Boot like this.  We really don't want to add a DT binding that
> gets values from the config.h file.
>

This binding file I created that is already part of the Mainline kernel.
I just brought it in to use #defines and once the drivers are ported to use
DT then the bindings will already be available.

And the config.h should be getting its values from the dt-binding.

Dan

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