From: wg@grandegger•com (Wolfgang Grandegger)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: fec: Add support for multiple phys on mdiobus
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:26:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50FEAF92.1090604@grandegger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50FEAE12.7090307@openwrt.org>
On 01/22/2013 04:19 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 01/22/2013 04:03 PM, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> On 01/22/2013 03:47 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>> On 01/22/2013 08:22 AM, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>>>>> Well this could be done when the fixed phy driver could be registered
>>>>> with the devicetree, maybe like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> fixed-phy: mdiophy {
>>>>> compatible = "mdio-fixed-phy";
>>>>> link = "100FD";
>>>>> };
>>>> I find that confusing. There is *no* phy but just a fixed link to the
>>>> switch...
>>>>
>>>>> The good thing about this would be that every ethernet driver could
>>>>> just
>>>>> use such a fixed phy, any external mdio phy (like on Marvell
>>>>> Armada) or
>>>>> just a phy connected to the internal mdio interface provided by the
>>>>> ethernet
>>>>> core.
>>>> What is wrong with the existing "fixed-link" property of the *ethernet*
>>>> node. The fixed-link handling should/could be done in the phy layer,
>>>> and
>>>> not in the driver as it currently is implemented. Maybe that's the
>>>> reason why the current code is regarded as hack!
>>> As far as I have used it with the CPMAC driver, the fixed PHY is a
>>> specific PHY device and there is no specific handling to be done by the
>>> Ethernet MAC driver but eventually changing its MII bus id so that it is
>>> named "fixed-0" to allow the fixed PHY driver to bind. Put differently,
>> There is special handling for the fixed link, e.g. here:
>>
>> http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.7.4/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c#L1462
>>
>>
>> This could be hidden in the PHY layer allowing all ethernet drivers
>> using the "fixed-link" property.
>
> Ok, so in the end you could have potentially an ethernet PHY node
> containing the following properties:
> - fixed-link
> - fixed-speed
> - fixed-duplex
>
> and treat it as a fixed-phy. If so, this would be pretty handy.
The "fixed-link" property already allows to specify speed, duplex, etc.:
http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.7.4/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/fsl-tsec-phy.txt#L48
Wolfgang.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-22 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-21 8:37 [PATCH] net: fec: Add support for multiple phys on mdiobus Sascha Hauer
2013-01-21 8:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] net: fec: refactor dt probing Sascha Hauer
2013-01-21 17:48 ` Baruch Siach
2013-01-21 18:27 ` Sascha Hauer
2013-01-21 8:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] net: fec: Add support for phys from devicetree Sascha Hauer
2013-01-21 8:56 ` [PATCH] net: fec: Add support for multiple phys on mdiobus Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-01-21 10:07 ` Sascha Hauer
2013-01-21 11:07 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-01-21 11:12 ` Florian Fainelli
2013-01-21 11:33 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-01-21 11:56 ` Sascha Hauer
2013-01-21 12:06 ` Sascha Hauer
2013-01-22 7:22 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-01-22 14:47 ` Florian Fainelli
2013-01-22 15:03 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2013-01-22 15:19 ` Florian Fainelli
2013-01-22 15:26 ` Wolfgang Grandegger [this message]
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