Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: phy: add Maxlinear GPY115/21x/24x driver

From: Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2021 22:39:58 +0200

On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 12:52:02PM +0000, Liang Xu wrote:
> On 4/6/2021 8:15 pm, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > This email was sent from outside of MaxLinear.
> >
> >
> >> +config MXL_GPHY
> >> +     tristate "Maxlinear PHYs"
> >> +     help
> >> +       Support for the Maxlinear GPY115, GPY211, GPY212, GPY215,
> >> +       GPY241, GPY245 PHYs.
> > Do these PHYs have unique IDs in register 2 and 3? What is the format
> > of these IDs?
> >
> > The OUI is fixed. But often the rest is split into two. The higher
> > part indicates the product, and the lower part is the revision. We
> > then have a struct phy_driver for each product, and the mask is used
> > to match on all the revisions of the product.
> >
> >       Andrew
> >
> Register 2, Register 3 bit 10~15 - OUI
> 
> Register 3 bit 4~9 - product number
> 
> Register 3 bit 0~3 - revision number
> 
> These PHYs have same ID in register 2 and 3.

O.K, that is pretty normal. Please add a phy_device for each
individual PHY. There are macros to help you do this.

	Andrew